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Overture

Anger, Jenny

Four Metaphors of Modernism, 2018, p.1

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Overture
Author: Anger, Jenny
Subjects: Aesthetics ; Applied aesthetics ; Applied arts ; Architecture ; Art exhibitions ; Art galleries ; Art genres and movements ; Art history ; Art music ; Art periods ; Arts ; Arts participation ; Axiology ; Buildings ; Commercial buildings ; Figurative language ; High culture ; Language ; Linguistics ; Literary genres ; Literature ; Metaphors ; Modern art ; Modernist art ; Modernist music ; Musical aesthetics ; Philosophy ; Poetry ; Postmodern art ; Retail stores ; Visual arts ; Western art music
Is Part Of: Four Metaphors of Modernism, 2018, p.1
Description: Herwarth Walden (born Georg Lewin, 1878–1941), impresario of modern art in early twentieth-century Berlin, implies that one need not search for the “roots,” the origins of art. Rather, true art is immediately available to the senses: “He who has eyes to hear, feels.”¹ Oskar Kokoschka’sPortrait of Herwarth Walden(Plate 1), painted while the young Austrian artist was helping launch Walden’sDer Sturmjournal in 1910, reveals the multisensory sensitivity attributed to its pivotal founding figure: note the intensity of the red marks that emanate from his sensory organs, his hands, his lips, his nose, his eyes, his ears,
Publisher: United States: University of Minnesota Press
Language: English

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