Word: franz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stated, German expressionism was the house style of radical figurative art in Northern Europe between about 1905 and 1930. But as Selz rightly insists in his catalogue essay, it was less a style than a cluster of attitudes. The major expressionist painters-Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, August Macke, Max Pechstein, Franz Marc, Emil Nolde, Max Beckmann, Oskar Kokoschka, Lyonel Feininger-did have formal traits in common. Harsh, dissonant color that blared fitfully from an unrefined surface; jagged shapes, broken-bottle cubism, an appetite for the primitive in drawing; masklike faces, Gothic poses, extreme jumps of tone between limelight and gloom...
Letters to Friends, Family and Editors, Franz Kafka...
...Letters to Friends, Family and Editors, Franz Kafka...
NONFICTION: Coming into the Country, John McPhee ∙The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie ∙Dispatches, Michael Herr The Last Cowboy, Jane Kramer Letters to Friends, Family and Editors, Franz Kafka...
Technology-nuclear weapons, microcomputers, killer satellites-may have rendered some of Kafka's nightmares obsolete. And we have lived so long with the absurd, retailed for so many years by so many depressing Frenchmen, that it bores us. But Franz Kafka's works still serve the primary function he described in a 1904 letter to his friend Oskar Pollak: "A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside...