ABSTRACT
This book looks at expressionism as a form of artistic practice and cultural encounter contextually situated within but geographically unbounded by European art and culture of the twentieth century. It investigates the forms of community and collective identity-making that have stimulated artistic practice and cultural communication in Europe and beyond. These “forms of community”—artists’ networks and cultural exchanges—formed a basis for cultural interaction, artistic cooperation and competition, and intellectual exchange; their development was shaped by socio-economic factors, technological advances, and new media developments. The book focuses on the transnational formation, dissemination, and transformation of expressionism outside of the German-speaking world, in regions such as Central and Eastern Europe, the Baltics, Scandinavia, Western and Southern Europe, but also in North and Latin America, and South Africa, in the first half of the twentieth century.
