Max Beckmann

by Barbara Buenger and Charles Haxthausen

Max Beckmann was among the greatest painters of the 20th century, yet no retrospective of his work has been mounted in the art capitals of New York, London, and Paris in over 30 years. Perhaps the lapse of attention has to do with the importance of abstraction in 20th-century art, and Beckmann's work is always figurative, simultaneously muscular and enigmatic and has enormous and unsettling power. Beckmann began his career as a naturalist and Symbolist...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870702416
• ISBN13: 9780870702419
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 4.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.9" x 11.4"