Resonating at the heart of Neolithic Childhood. Art in a False
Present, c. 1930 is the question whether art has present, past, and
future functions. The modernist assertion of the autonomy of art
was intended to render superfluous art's social and religious
functions. But what if the functionlessness of art comes under
suspicion of being instrumentalized by bourgeois capitalism? This
was an accusation that informed the anti-modernist critique of the
avant-garde, and particularly of Surrealism. The objective
throughout the crisis-ridden present of the 1920s to the 1940s was
to reaffirm a once ubiquitous, but long-lost functionality--not
only of art. The publication accompanying the exhibition examines
the strategies deployed in this reaffirmation. These include the
surrealist Primitivism of an "Ethnology of the White Man" together
with the excavation of the deep time of humanity--into the
"Neolithic Childhood" mapped out by the notoriously anti-modernist
Carl Einstein (1885-1940) as a hallucinatory retro-utopia. The
volume brings together essays by the curators and academics
involved in the project, primary texts by Carl Einstein and a
comprehensive documentation of the exhibition including lists of
works, texts on as well as images of numerous exhibits and finally
installation views. At the center of the volume, a glossary
discusses Carl Einstein's own theoretical vocabulary as well as
further associated terms, such as Autonomy, Formalism, Function,
Gesture, Hallucination, Art, Metamorphosis, Primitivisms, Totality.
With contributions by: Irene Albers, Philipp Albers, Joyce S.
Cheng, Rosa Eidelpes, Carl Einstein, Anselm Franke, Charles W.
Haxthausen, Tom Holert, Sven Lutticken, Ulrike Muller, Jenny
Nachtigall, David Quigley, Cornelius Reiber, Erhard Schuttpelz,
Kerstin Stakemeier, Maria Stavrinaki, Elena Vogman, Zairong Xiang,
Sebastian Zeidler With reproductions of artworks by: Jean (Hans)
Arp, Willi Baumeister, Georges Braque, Brassai, Claude Cahun, Lux
T. Feininger, Max Ernst, Florence Henri, Barbara Hepworth, Hannah
Hoech, Heinrich Hoerle, Paul Klee, Germaine Krull, Helen Levitt,
Andre Masson, Alexandra Povorina, Gaston-Louis Roux, Kalifala
Sidibe, Louis Soutter, Yves Tanguy, Toyen, Jindrich Styrsky, Raoul
Ubac, Paule Vezelay and others.
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