The exhibition Chaos and classicism Art essay
Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936. Published by Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2011. Text by Emily Braun, Kenneth E. Silver, James Herbert, Jeanne Nugent, Helen Hsu. Guest curator and professor Kenneth E. Silver and professor Atina Grossmann, now available in , discuss the prevalence of classicism in interwar art and contextualize the social. Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, Germany and Spain, 1918 - an exhibition focusing on the enormous transformation in European culture between the world wars. This massive transformation of contemporary aesthetics in France, Italy and Germany, sponsored by Fundaci n, will include painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, film, fashion and decorative arts. Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918 – the first exhibition in the United States to focus on this international phenomenon. This year, eleven Wheaton students spent a study day on “Chaos and Classicism: Art in France,” Italy and Germany, 1918-1936” at the Guggenheim Museum with Professor Ellen McBreen. This innovative exhibition explored different responses to the chaos and horrific destruction of the First World War, when many artists turned away from the pre-war period. 'Romanticism and Classicism' by TE Hulme 1883-1917 was published posthumously as part of the collection Speculations, but probably written -12. It is an important attack on Romanticism in art and poetry, and was an influential defense of 'philosophy', although that may be too strong a word to lay its foundation.,