Graphic Modernism from the Baltic to the Balkans, 1910-1935

Venue :

New York Public Library
Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Gallery
Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Fifth Ave and 42nd Street
New York

Dates :

Friday 5 October 2007 – 25 January 2008

The Exhibition :

This exhibition explores the interplay between post–World War I national revivals and the broader European modernist artistic and literary movements of the early 20th century until the establishment of authoritarian regimes in the mid-1930s. Over fifty works on paper, primarily printed materials including books, book jackets, posters, and printed ephemera in more than a dozen languages, will be drawn from eight departments and collections at The New York Public Library.

A featured artist or artists whose vision and œuvre dominated a given region will anchor each of the five exhibition cases, for example: El Lissitzky from both Germany and Russia; Karel Teige from Czechoslovakia and Jerzy Hulewicz from Poland; Sirak Skitnik from Bulgaria and Fran Krajl from Slovenia; Lajos Kassák from Hungary and Victor Brauner from Romania; and Niklavs Strunke from Latvia and Jaan Vahtra from Estonia. This exhibition of East European modernism will be the first of its kind organized by the Library, and many of the individual books and artifacts from the historic foundation collections of the Library will be displayed here for the first time.

More Info :

New York Public Library
W : http://www.nypl.org/research/calendar