Käthe Kollwitz - Elizabeth Prelinger
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Few artists are as universally beloved as the German printmaker, draftsman, and sculptor Kathe Kollwitz, whose powerful images of mothers and children and of protest against social injustice have long been admired by both critics and the public. Kollwitz, a woman in a field dominated by men, steadfastly adhered to a figurative style in the era of abstraction and depicted socially engaged subject matter when it was unfashionable. Kollwitz is largely known through political posters and restrikes of her prints. Her reputation has to some extent been dominated by an emphasis on the social content of her work, often at the expense of her remarkable artistic skills. The present study challenges that view by focusing on the artistic aspect of her achievement. The book consists of three essays on Kollwitz. Elizabeth Prelinger provides a reassessment of Kollwitz as an artist; Alessandra Comini presents a richly atmospheric discussion of the artist's life in Berlin during the tumultuous period that spanned two world wa...
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1992Uitgever: National Gallery of Art / Yale University Press272 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0300057296ISBN-13: 9780300057294Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Käthe Kollwitz in Vlaanderen Softcover, 210 x 150 mm, 80 pp , geillustreerd in z/w, in goede staat; Book condition: Fine; Binding: Hardcover; Edition: 1st Edition [Auteur: Raf Seys] [Taal: nl] [Uitgever: Uitgeverij Devriendt] [Jaar: 1998] [Titel: Käthe Kollwitz in Vlaanderen]
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Käthe Kollwitz Hardcover, yellow band and dustwrapper, 290 x 235 mm, 192 pp , illustrations in b/w and colour, good condition; Book condition: Fine; Binding: Hardcover; Edition: 1st Edition [Auteur: Elizabeth Prelinger; Alessandra Comini; Hildegard Bachert] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: National Gallery of Art / Yale University Press] [Jaar: 1992] [Titel: Käthe Kollwitz]
