German Expressionism; Primitivism and Modernity

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First printing, quarto size, 277 pp., in cardboard slipcase. German expressionism focused on artist feelings, bright colors and simple shapes over earlier realism conventions. Here Lloyd explores the relationship between the German Expressionist movement to primitive arts and crafts: "This original and attractive book explores the forces that shaped German Expressionism in the years before the First World War...Lloyd argues that primitivism and modernity were the two poles of the German Expressionist movement...[and Lloyd] finds important links between the Expressionist approach to primitive arts and crafts and the ethnography, science, politics, art history, and popular culture of the era" (n.b., from jacket flap).

___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full black cloth over boards, gilt lettering stamped on spine, black endapers, colour frontis, book replete with illustrations both black-and-white and colour; quarto size (11 1/8" x 9 3/4"), pagination: [i-v] vi-x [1-2] 3-267. Dust jacket is unclipped and unpriced with illustrations on both panels, summary of book on front flap and short author bio on back flap. Book is housed in publisher's thin, white cardboard slipcase.

___CONDITION: Volume fine, with clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; clean, crisp, and as new. Dust jacket also fine with a miniscule of edgewear at the head of the spine. Publisher's slipcase near fine with no tears or splits but small amount of edgewear and light overall soiling.

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