From Library Journal
LACMA senior curator Barron follows up her acclaimed 1991 show and catalog Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany (LJ 8/91) with this equally important and powerfully rendered exhibition catalog. She covers the careers, lives, and works of 23 well-known German and Austrian artists, architects, and photographers who lived in exile between 1933 and 1945. More than 300 illustrations, historic photographs, and documents accompany essays by 19 contributors that interweave social and political conditions with research on individual artists. Organized thematically, the text covers such topics as the exiled artists' initial flights to European artistic centers outside of Germany, their escape from Europe, the cultural climate they faced in the United States, and their influence as teachers. A detailed chronology and bibliography add to its lasting reference value. Highly recommended for all academic and large and medium public libraries.?Russell T. Clement, Univ. of Tennessee Lib., Knoxville
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
