An exhaustive monograph on Alexander Schawinsky, a leading figure at the Bauhaus and Black Mountain College, theorist of a theatre that heralded "happening", author of a "performative" pictorial oeuvre that decompartmentalised media and broadened the idea of painting, and representative of the transatlantic exchange of artistic ideas that had a lasting impact on the history of art.
Schawinsky’s work as a painter also addresses the dissolution of the medium’s boundaries and focuses on the process, for instance in his Track series, which he “painted” with the aid of a car. Beyond the avant-garde utopias of the Bauhaus and his proto-happening art, Schawinsky’s oeuvre is linked in many ways to the majory tendencies in European as well as American prewar and postwar 20th-century modernism. His work may thus also be seen as representative of the transatlantic exchange of artistic ideas that was induced by the political situation and had a lasting impact on art history.
Language: English
Release date: 2015
Pages: 176
Images: 58 color/ 31 b/w
Dimensions: 19.61 x 0.97 x 27.48 cm
Authors: Thorsten Blume, Eva Díaz, Raphael Gygax, Juliet Koss, Tobias Peper
Design: Studio Marie Lusa
Edited by Raphael Gygaxm, Heike Munder
Publisher: JRP Editions SA
ISBN: 978-3037643976
