Expressionism and poster design in Germany 1905-1922 : : between spirit and commerce / / by Kathleen Chapman.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history, Volume 288
• VerfasserIn: Chapman, Kathleen
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 288.; Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 32.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph.D.--University of Southern California, 2010) under the title: Expressionism multiplied : early twentieth-century German posters between art, commerce, and politics.

In Expressionism and Poster Design in Germany 1905-1925 , Kathleen Chapman re-defines Expressionism by situating it in relation to the most common type of picture in public space during the Wilhelmine twentieth century, the commercial poster. Focusing equally on visual material and contemporaneous debates surrounding art, posters, and the image in general, this study reveals that conceptions of a “modern” image were characterized not so much by style or mode of production and distribution, but by a visual rhetoric designed to communicate more directly than words. As instances of such rhetoric, Expressionist art and posters emerge as equally significant examples of this modern image, demonstrating the interconnectedness of the aesthetic, the utilitarian, and the commercial in European modernism.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Figures -- Introduction: Expressionism between Spirit and Commerce -- Illustration, Abstraction, Advertising: Wilhelm Worringer and the Continuities of German Art -- Hieroglyphic Appeal: the Visual Rhetoric of the German Object Poster, Werkbund Style, and Expressionist Art -- Promoting Expressionism before Expressionism: Künstlergruppe Brücke and Theories of the Modern Image before World War I -- From War to Revolution, from Propaganda to Art: Expressionism and Posters of the Revolutionary Period -- Expressionism after Expressionism: “Dead” Expressionism and Theories of the Modern Image after World War I -- Conclusion: Expressionism as Buzzword -- Back Matter -- Copyright of Figures -- Bibliography -- Index.