This book presents new research on the histories and legacies of the German Expressionist groupBlaue Reiter, the founding force behind modernist abstraction. It offers a novel perspective on familiar aspects of Expressionism and abstraction, taking seriously the inheritance of modernism for the twenty-first century.
Introduction: why does Der Blaue Reiter still matter?
Chapter 2. The dynamics of gendered artistic identity and creativity in Der Blaue Reiter
Chapter 3. The ‘primitive’ and the modern in Der Blaue Reiter almanac and the Folkwang Museum
Chapter 5. Kleinkunst and Gesamtkunstwerk in Munich and Zurich: Der Blaue Reiter and Dada
Chapter 6. Type/Face: Wassily Kandinsky and Walter Benjamin on language and perception
Chapter 7. Feeling blue: Der Blaue Reiter, Francophilia and the Tate Gallery, 1960
Chapter 8. Die Tunisreise: the legacy of Der Blaue Reiter in the art of Paul Klee and Nacer Khemir