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HA330: The Emergence of the European Avant-Gardes 1910-1940 Bibliography

Department of History of Art

University of Warwick

[HA330] The Emergence of the European Avant-Gardes 1910-1940

Course Tutor: Dr Jonathan Vickery

Extended Bibliography

NB: This is a general subject bibliography, organised by `movement' and according to the course structure; monographs on individual artists can be located in the library catalogue.

   

Primary Sources

 
   
   
Apollinaire, Guillaume The Cubist Painters, NY, George Wittenborn, 1970.
Apollonia, Umbro (ed.) Futurist Manifestos, London, Thames and Hudson, 1973.
Bataille, Georges The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism, London, Verso, 1994.
Breton, André Nadja, Paris, Gallimard, 1963.
Breton, André Surrealism and Painting, London, Macdonald, 1965.
Breton, André What is Surrealism? Selected Writings, London, Pluto Press, 1978.
De Stijl Netherlands, 1917-1932. [Arts Periodicals]
Doesberg, Theo von On European Architecture: Complete Essays 1924-1931, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1990.
Gleizes, Albert Puissances du Cubism, Paris, Presence, 1969.
Gleizes, Albert and Jean Metzinger Du `Cubism', Paris, Eugène Figuière, 1912.
Gropius, Walter The New Architecture and the Bauhaus, London, Faber and Faber, 1966.
Huelsenbeck, Richard Dada Almanach, London, Atlas Press, 1993.
Huelsenbeck, Richard Memoirs of a Dada Drummer, NY, Viking, 1974.
Itten, Johannes Design and Form: The Basic Course at the Bauhaus, London, Thames and Hudson, 1967.
Kahnweiler, Daniel Henry My Galleries and Painters, London, Thames and Hudson, 1971.
Kandinsky, Wassily Concerning the Spiritual in Art (trans. M.T.H. Sadler), NY, Dover, 1977.
Kandinsky, Wassily and Marc, Franz The Blaue Reiter Almanac, London, Thames and Hudson, 1974.
Klee, Paul On Modern Art, London, Faber and Faber, 1984.
Klee, Paul Pedagogical Sketchbook, London, Faber and Faber, 1968.
Marinetti, Filippo The Futurist Cookbook (trans. Suzanne Brill), London, Bedford Arts, 1989.
Mondrian, Piet Natural Reality and Abstract Reality: An Essay in Trialogue Form 1919-1920, NY, Braziller, 1995.
Motherwell, Robert The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology, Camb.Mass., Belknap, 1989.
Ozenfant, Amédée Foundations of Modern Art, NY, Dover, 1952.
Richter, Hans Dada: Art and Anti-Art, London, Thames and Hudson, 1965.
Spiller, Jürg (ed.) Paul Klee Notebooks, Vol. 1: The Thinking Eye, London, Lund Humphries, 1969.
Spiller, Jürg (ed.) Paul Klee Notebooks, Vol. 2: The Nature of Nature, London, Lund Humphries, 1970.
Tzara, Tristan Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries, London, John Calder, 1977.

   

General

 
   
Adam, Peter Art of the Third Reich, NY, Abrams, 1992.
Banham, Rayner Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, Camb.Mass., MIT, 1992.
Barron, Stephanie `Degenerate Art': The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany, NY, Abrams, 1991.
Carrà, Massimo Metaphysical Art, London, Thames & Hudson, 1971.
Elliot, David Germany in Ferment [catalogue for the exhibition held in] Durham, The University, 1970.
Fer, Briony, et.al. Realism, Rationalism, Surrealism: Art Between the Wars, The Open University, 1993.
Fer, Briony, et.al. Russian Art and the Revolution, The Open University, 1983.
Forster-Hahn, Françoise (ed.) Imagining Modern German Culture 1889-1910, Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1996.
Frampton, Kenneth Modern Architecture: A Critical Inquiry, London, Thames and Hudson, 1992.
Giry, Marcel Fauvism: Origin and Development, NY, Alpine Fine Art, 1981.
Goldwater, Robert Primitivism in Modern Art, Camb.Mass., Belknap Press, 1986.
Golomstock, Igor Totalitarian Art, London, Collins Harvill, 1990.
Guttsman, W.L. Art for the Workers: Ideology and the Visual Arts in Weimar Germany, Manchester University Press, 1997.
Haftman, Werner , et.al. German Art of the Twentieth Century, (exhib.cat.), NY, MOMA, 1957.
Harrison, Charles, et.al. Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century, The Open University, 1993.
Hartley, Keith (ed), et.al. The Romantic Spirit in German Art 1790-1990, South Bank Centre, London, Hayward Gallery, 1994.
Herbert, James D Fauve Painting: The Making of Cultural Politics, Yale University Press, 1992.
Hesse, Thomas B. Avant-Garde Art, London, Collier-Macmillan, 1968.
Hofmann, Werner Turning points in Twentieth Century Art 1890-1917, London, Allen Lane, 1969.
Images of Power in the 1930s, (exhib.cat.), South Bank centre, London, Hayward Gallery, 1995.
Joachimides, Christos M., (ed) et.al. German Art in the Twentieth Century: Painting and Sculpture 1905-1985, (exhib.cat.), London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1985.
Kent, Sarah, and Gillen, Eckhardt (eds.) Berlin: A Critical View: Ugly Realism 20's-70s, (exhib.cat.), London, Institute of Contemporary Arts, 1978.
Maleka, Maria The Munich Secession: Art and Artists in Turn of the Century Munich, Princeton University Press, 1990.
Meskimmon, Marsha and West, Shearer Visions of the `Neue Frau': Women and the Visual Arts in Weimar Germany, Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1995.
Morris, Kelly and Woods, Amanda (eds.) Art in Berlin 1815-1989, (exhib.cat.), Atlanta, High Museum of Art, 1990.
Muller, Joseph-Emile Fauvism, London, Thames and Hudson, 1967.
Nash, John Cubism, Futurism and Constructivism, London, Thames and Hudson, 1974.
Neue Sachlichkeit and German Realism of the Twenties, (exhib.cat.), London Hayward Gallery Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979.
Paret, Peter The Berlin Secession: Modernism and Its Enemies in Imperial Germany, Camb.Mass., Belknap Press, 1980.
Perry, Gill, et.al. The Two Exhibitions: The Fauves, 1905, and die Brücke, 1906, The Open University, 1983.
Perry, Gill, et.al. Georg Grosz and Weimar Germany, The Open University, 1983.
Petropoulos, Jonathan Art as Politics in the Third Reich, University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
Rogof, Irit (ed.) The Divided Heritage: Themes and Problems in German Modernism, Cambridge University Press, 1991.

   
Selwood, Sara, et.al. Abstraction and Kandinsky, The Open University, 1983.
Shrader, Bärbel, and Jürgen Schebera The `Golden' Twenties: Art and Literature in the Weimar Republic, Yale University Press, 1988.
The Twilight of the Tsars: Russian Art at the Turn of the Century (exhib.cat.), South Bank Centre, London, Hayward Gallery, 1991.
Vergo, Peter, et.al. Abstraction: Towards a New Art 1910-20 (exhib.cat.), London, Tate Gallery, 1986.
Werenskiold, Marit The Concept of Expressionism: Origin and Metapmorphosis, Oslo, Universitetsforlaget, 1984.
Wescher, Herta Collage, NY, Abrams, 1968.
West, Shearer The Visual Arts in Germany 1890-1937: Utopia and Despair, Manchester University Press, 1998.
Willett, John The New Sobriety 1917-1933: Art and Politics in the Weimar Period, London, Thames and Hudson, 1978.
Willett, John The Weimar Years: A Culture Cut Short, London, Thames and Hudson, 1984.
   

German Expressionism

 
 
   
Barron, Stephanie German Expressionism 1915-1925: The Second Generation, Munich, Prestel, 1988.
Barron, Stephanie, and Dube, Wolf-Dieter German Expressionism: Art and Society, London, Thames and Hudson, 1997.
Barry, Herbert German Expressionism: die Brücke and der Blaue Reiter, London, Jupiter, 1983.
Behr, Shulamith Women Expressionists, Oxford, Phaidon, 1988.
Boudaille, George Expressionists, NY, Alpine Fine Arts, 1976.
Dube, Wolf-Dieter The Expressionists, London, Thames and Hudson, 1972.
Expressionism: The Buchheim Collection, (exhib.cat.), Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1983.
Gerhardus, Mary and Dietfried Expressionism: From Artistic Commitment to the Begninning of a New Era, Oxford, Phaidon, 1976.
Gordon, Donald E. Expressionism: Art and Idea, Yale University Press, 1989.
Jähner, Horst Künstlergruppe Brücke, Berlin, Kohlhammer, 1984.
Lloyd, Jill German Expressionism: Primitivism and Modernity, Yale University Press, 1991.
Long, Rose-Carol Washton (ed.) German Expressionism: Documents from the End of the Wilhelmine Empire to the Rise of National Socialism, NY, G.K.Hall and Co., 1993.
Myers, Bernard S. Expressionism: A Generation in Revolt, London, Thames and Hudson, 1963.
Sotriffer, Kristian Expressionism and Fauvism, NY, McGraw-Hill, 1972.
Uhr, Horst Masterpieces of German Expressionism, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1982.
Weinstein, Joan The End of Expressionism: Art and the November Revolution in Germany, 1918-19, University of Chicago Press, 1990.
Willett, John Expressionism, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970.

   

Cubism

 
   
Barr, Alfred H. Cubism and Abstract Art (exhib.cat., [1936]), NY, MOMA, 1966.
Cooper, Douglas The Cubist Epoch, London, Phaidon, 1970.
Cooper, Douglas, and Tinterow, Gary The Essential Cubism: Braque, Picasso and their Friends, 1907- 1920, London, Tate Gallery, 1983.
Cubism and La section D'Or: Works on Paper (exhib.cat.), Chicago, R.S.Johnson Fine Art, 1989.
Fabre, Josep Palau I Picasso Cubism (1907-1917), Könemann, 1996.
Frascina, Francis, et.al. Cubism: Picasso and Braque, The Open University, 1983.
Fry, Edward F. Cubism, London, Thames and Hudson, 1978.
Gamwell, Lynn Cubist Criticism, Ann Arbor, Michegan, UMI Research Press, 1980.
Gerhardus, Mary and Dietfried Cubism and Futurism, The Evolution of the Self-Sufficient Picture, Oxford, Phaidon, 1977.
Gleizes, Albert Puissances du Cubism, Paris, Presence, 1969.
Gleizes, Albert and Jean Metzinger Du `Cubism', Paris, Eugène Figuière, 1912.
Golding, John Cubism : A History and an Analysis, London, Faber and Faber, 1968.
Gray, Christopher Cubist Aesthetic Theories, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1953.
Judkins, Winthrop Fluctant Representation in Synthetic Cubism: Picasso, Braque, Gris, 1910-1920, NY, Garland, 1976.
Kahnweiler, Daniel Henry My Galleries and Painters, London, Thames and Hudson, 1971.
Ozenfant, Amédée Foundations of Modern Art, NY, Dover, 1952
Rosenblum, Robert Cubism and Twentieth Century Art, NY, Abrams, 1976.
Schmeller, Alfred Cubism, London, Methuen, 1961.
Schwartz, Paul Waldo The Cubists, London, Thames and Hudson, 1971.
Spate, Virginia Orphism: The Evolution of Non-Figurative Painting in Paris, 1910-1914, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1970.
   

Dada

 
   
Ades, Dawn Dada and Surrealism, London, Thames and Hudson, 1974.
Erickson, John D. Dada: Performance, Poetry and Art, Boston, Twayne, 1984.
Gordon, Mel (ed.) Dada Performance, NY, PAJ, 1987.
Greenberg, Allan C. Artists and Revolution: Dada and the Bauhaus, 1917-1925, Ann Arbor, Michegan, UMI Research Press, 1979.
Huelsenbeck, Richard Dada Almanach, London, Atlas Press, 1993.
Huelsenbeck, Richard Memoirs of a Dada Drummer, NY, Viking, 1974.
Inez, Hedges Languages of Revolt: Dada and Surrealist Literature and Film, Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1983.
Kuenzli, Rudolph E. (ed.) Dada and Surrealist Film, Camb.Mass., MIT, 1996.
Motherwell, Robert The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology, Camb.Mass., Belknap, 1989.
Richter, Hans Dada: Art and Anti-Art, London, Thames and Hudson, 1965.
Rubin, William S. Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage, NY, MOMA, 1968.
Sawelso, Naomi Women in Dada, Essays on Sex, Gender and Identity, Camb.Mass., MIT, 1988.
Scharf, Marina `Liberation through Art: Dada and Surrealism' in Modern Art 1848 to the Present: Styles and Social Implications, Open University, 1976.
Sheppard, Richard (ed.) New Studies in Dada: Essays and Documents, Hutton Press, 1981.
Tzara, Tristan Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries, London, John Calder, 1977.
Verkauf, Willy (ed.) Dada: Monograph of a Movement, London, St.Martin's Press, 1975.
Watts, Harriett Ann Chance: A Perspective on Dada, Ann Arbor, Michegan, UMI Research Press, 1980.
Young, Alan Dada and After: Extremist Modernism and English Literature, Manchester University Press, 1981.
   

   

Futurism

 
   
Apollonia, Umbro (ed.) Futurist Manifestos, London, Thames and Hudson, 1973.
Berghaus, Günter Futurism and Politics: Between Anarchist Rebellion and Fascist Reaction, Oxford, Berghahn, 1996.
Clough, Rosa Trillo Futurism: The Story of A Modern Art Movement, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1961.
Futurismo: 1909-1919, (exhib.cat.), Northern Arts and Scottish Arts Council, 1972.
Kirby, Michael Futurist Performance: with Manifestos and Playscripts, NY, Dutton, 1971.
Le Futurism (exhib.cat.), Paris, Museé National d'art Moderne, 1973.
Lynton, Norbert `Futurist Art and the Dynamism of Modern Life' in Modern Art 1848 to the Present: Styles and Social Implications, Open University, 1976.
Marinetti, Filippo The Futurist Cookbook (trans. Suzanne Brill), London, Bedford Arts, 1989.
Martin, Marianne W. Futurist Art Theory 1909-1915, NY, Hacker, 1978.
Perloff, Marjorie The Futurist Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre and the Language of Rupture, Chicago University Press, 1989.
Pontus, Hultén Futurism and Futurisms, NY, Abbeville, 1986.
Rye, Jane Futurism, London, Studio Vista, 1972.
Taylor, Joshua C. Futurism, (exhib.cat.), NY, MOMA, 1961.
Tisdall, Caroline Futurism, London, Thames and Hudson, 1977.
Toffler, Alvin The Futurists, NY, Random House, 1972.
   

Surrealism

 
   
Alexandrian, Sarane Surrealist Art, London, Thames and Hudson, 1970.
Balakian, Anna Surrealism: The Road to the Absolute, University of Chicago Press, 1986.
Bataille, Georges The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism, London, Verso, 1994.
Batchelor, David and Harrison, Charles et,al. Surrealism, The Open University, 1983.
Bradley, Fiona Surrealism, London, The Tate Gallery, 1997.
Breton, André Nadja, Paris, Gallimard, 1963.
Breton, André Surrealism and Painting, London, Macdonald, 1965.
Breton, André What is Surrealism? Selected Writings, London, Pluto Press, 1978.
Caws, Mary Anne et.al. (eds.) Surrealism and Women, Camb.Mass., MIT, 1991.
Chadwick, Whitney Myth in Surrealist Painting, 1929-1939, Ann Arbor, Michegan, UMI Research, 1980.
Gascoyne, David A Short Survey of Surrealism, London, Cobden-Sanderson, 1936.
Henning, Edward B. The Spirit of Surrealism (exhib.cat.), Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979.
Jean, Marcel A History of Surrealist Painting, London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1960.
Levitt, Annette Shandler The Genres and Genders of Surrealism, London, Macmillan, 1999.
Lewis, Helena Dada Turns Red: The Politics of Surrealism, Edinburgh University Press, 1990.
Nadeau, Maurice The History of Surrealism, London, Plantin, 1987.
Pierre, José Surrealism, London, Heron, 1970.
Pierre, José (ed.) Investigating Sex: Surrealist Research 1928-1932, London, Verso, 1992.
Read, Herbert (ed.) Surrealism, London, Faber and Faber, 1971.
Schneede, Uwe M. Surrealism, London, Heron, 1970.
Wilson, Simon Surrealist Painting, Oxford, Phaidon, 1982.
   

   

Suprematism and Constructivism

   
Art in Revolution: Soviet Art and Design since 1917 (exhib.cat.), Arts Council of Great Britain, London, Hayward Gallery, 1971.
Bann, Stephen (ed.) The Tradition of Constructivism, NY, Da Capo Press, 1974.
Bowlt, John E. (ed.) Russian Art of the Avant-Garde: Theory and Criticism 1902-1934, NY, Viking Press, 1976.
Cooke Catherine (ed.) Russian Avant-Garde Art and Architecture, London, Architectural Design and Academy Editions, 1983.
Cooke, Catherine Russian Avant-Garde: Theories of Art, Architecture and the City, London, Academy Editions, 1995.
Elliott, David New Worlds: Russian Art and Society 1900-1937, London, Thames and Hudson, 1986.
Gibion, George, and Tjalsma, H.W. (eds.) Russian Modernism: Culture and the Avant-Garde, 1900- 1930, Cornell University Press, 1976.
Gray, Camilla The Russian Experiment in Art 1863-1922, London, Thames and Hudson, 1962.
Gropius, Walter The New Architecture and the Bauhaus, London, Faber and Faber, 1966.
Lodder, Christina Russian Constructivism, Yale University Press, 1983.
Nakov, Andrei, B. Russian Pioneers: At the Origins of Non-Objective Art, London, Annely Juda, 1976.
Rickey, George Constructivism: Origins and Evolution, London, Studio Vista, 1967.
Rotzler, Willy Constructive Concepts: A History of Constructivist Art from Cubism to the Present, Zurich, ABC, 1977.
Rowell, Margit, and Rudenstine, Angelica Zander Art of the Avant-Garde in Russia: Selections from the George Costakis Collection, NY, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1981.
Rudenstine, Angelica Zander Russian Avant-Garde Art: The George Costakis Collection, London, Thames and Hudson, 1981.
Russian Women Artists of the Avant-Garde 1910-1930 (exhib.cat.), Galerie Gmerzynska, Köln, 1979.
The Great Utopia: The Russian and Soviet Avant-Garde, 1915-1932 (exhib.cat.), NY, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1992.
The Suprematist Straight Line (exhib.cat.), London, Annely Juda, 1977.
Zhadova, Larissa Alekseevna Tatlin, London, Thames and Hudson, 1988.
   

De-Stijl and Neo-Plasticism

   
Barr, Alfred H. De Stijl 1917-1928, NY, MOMA, 1961.
Bayley, Stephen `De Stijl: The Reconstruction of Life through Art and Technology', Modern Art 1848 to the Present: Styles and Social Implications, Open University, 1976.
Blotkamp, Carel, et.al. De Stijl: The Formative Years: 1917-1922, Camb.Mass., MIT, 1982.
De Stijl Netherlands, 1917-1932. [Arts Periodicals]
De Stijl (exhib.cat.), London, Camden Arts Centre, 1968.
Doesberg, Theo von On European Architecture: Complete Essays 1924-1931, Birkhäuser Verlag, 1990.
Jaffé Hans L.C. et.al. De Stijl 1917-1831: Visions of Utopia, Oxford, Phaidon, 1982.
Jaffé, Hans L.C. De Stijl, London, Thames and Hudson, 1970.
Mondrian, Piet Natural Reality and Abstract Reality: An Essay in Trialogue Form 1919-1920, NY, Braziller, 1995.
Troy, Nancy The De Stijl Environment, Camb.Mass., MIT, 1983.
Warnke, Carsten-Peter The Ideal as Art: De Stijl 1917-1931, Köln, Taschen, 1998.
   

   

Bauhaus

 
   
Bauhaus: A German Exhibition (exhib.cat.), London, Royal Academy of Arts, 1968.
Bayer, Herbert, et.al. (eds.), Bauhaus 1919-1928 (exhib.cat. [1938]), NY, MOMA, 1975.
Forgács, Éva The Bauhaus Idea and Bauhaus Politics, Central European University Press, 1997.
Franciscono, Marcel Walter Gropius and the Creation of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1971.
Greenberg, Allan C. Artists and Revolution: Dada and the Bauhaus, 1917-1925, Ann Arbor, Michegan, UMI Research Press, 1979.
Hahn, Peter et.al. Bauhaus Berlin, Kunstverlag Weingarten, 1985.
Itten, Johannes Design and Form: The Basic Course at the Bauhaus, London, Thames and Hudson, 1967.
Kandinsky, Wassily Concerning the Spiritual in Art (trans. M.T.H. Sadler), NY, Dover, 1977.
Kandinsky, Wassily and Marc, Franz The Blaue Reiter Almanac, London, Thames and Hudson, 1974.
Klee, Paul On Modern Art, London, Faber and Faber, 1984.
Klee, Paul Pedagogical Sketchbook, London, Faber and Faber, 1968.
Naylor, Gillian Bauhaus, London, Studio Vista, 1968.
Naylor, Gillian The Bauhaus Reassessed: Sources and Design Theory, London, The Herbert Press, 1985.
Neumann, Eckhardt (ed.) Bauhaus and Bauhaus People, NY, Von Nostrand Reinhold, 1970.
Scheidig, Walther Crafts of the Weimar Bauhaus, 1919-1924: An Early Experiment in Industrial Design, London, Studio Vista, 1967.
Sharp, Dennis Walter Gropius: Bauhaus, Dessau, London, Phaidon, 1993.
Spiller, Jürg (ed.) Paul Klee Notebooks, Vol. 1: The Thinking Eye, London, Lund Humphries, 1969.
Spiller, Jürg (ed.) Paul Klee Notebooks, Vol. 2: The Nature of Nature, London, Lund Humphries, 1970.
Staatliches Bauhaus Weimar 1919-1923, München, Kraus Reprint, 1980.
Walter, Gropius Bauhausbauten, Dessau, Mainz, Florian Kupferberg Verlag, 1974.
Whitfield, Frank Bauhaus, London, Thames and Hudson, 1986.
Wingler, Hans M. The Bauhaus, Camb.Mass., MIT, 1969.
Wingler, Hans M. Neue Arbeiten der Bauhauswerkstätten, Mainz, Florian Kuferberg Verlag, 1981.
Wingler, Hans M. (ed.) Graphic Work from the Bauhaus, London, Lund Humphries, 1965.