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Modernism in Europe. (Current and Coming).(Los Angeles County Museum of Art's "Central European Avant-Gardes, Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930" exhibition)(Brief Article)
The decades between 1910 and 1930 were tumultuous not only politically but also in the worlds of art and design. However, before the reconfiguration of Europe in the 1980s documents and objects pertaining to artistic movements in many countries were inaccessible to many scholars. Now an exhibition on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art examines the artistic climate of Central Europe during this very intriguing and fertile period. The exhibition in entitled Central European Avant-Gardes, Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930 and is on view until June 2. There are approximately three hundred objects, including paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts objects.
Central Europe, extending from the Balkans to the Baltic along the Danube and Oder Rivers, encompasses cultures of Slavic, Germanic, Magyar, and Gaelic origins. The exhibition examines the contributions of members of the avant-garde in Belgrade, Berlin, Bucharest, Budapest, Cracow, Dessau, Ljubljana, Lodz, Poznan, Prague, Vienna, ...
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