Contents
Painting / by Karl Ruhrberg
1 Prologue to Modernism 7
The Magic of Light
The Janus Face of Impressionism
The Painting of Pure Reason
Seurat and the Neo-Impressionists
In Search of a Lost Paradise
The Work and Legend of Paul Gauguin
Truth beyond Beauty
Van Gogh: Painting as Dramatic Action
World Art from the Provinces
Paul Cézanne: the Primitive of a New Art
2 The World as Symbol 22
The Art of Initiates
Symbolism and its Consequences
A Closed Society
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and the World of Montmartre
Art as a Philosophy
Ferdinand Hodler: Swiss Symbolist
3 The Break with History 30
Youth Wipes the Slate Clean
The End of the Historical Definition of Art
Masquerades
The Haunted Realm of James Ensor
Life unto Death
The Crisis of Modern Consciousness in the Work of Edvard Munch
4 Expression and Form 37
The Fauves and their Classic Representative
Matisse and his Circle
Sensation and Ecstasy
Northern German Expressionism
The struggle for a New World
The “Brücke” Painters and their Utopia
A Belated Heir of the Baroque
Oskar Kokoschka: Viennese Expressionist
Universal Anxiety and a New Acquiescence
Meidner, Morgner, Schiele and Late Expressionism
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