The Department of 20th Century Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art =
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needs to borrow (or purchase if necessary) unbound issues of the following =
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periodical issues for a major exhibition which will run at LACMA from =
February 23 through May 11, 1997. (See details below)=2a=2aThe exhibition =
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travel to the Mus=e9e des Beaux Arts de Montr=e9al from 6/19/97 - 9/7/97 a=
nd to =
the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin from 10/9/97 - 1/4/98. We have been unabl=
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to locate single unbound issues of the following titles and are hoping to =
avoid having bound volumes inaccessible to our staff for that length of =
time. The museum is willing to provide an official loan contract if =
required: Please respond to: Deborah Barlow Smedstad =
(dbarlow=40art.lacma.org / (213)857-6122) if you have any of these availabl=
e:
Art Digest, Volume 13, no. 2, (October 15, 1938)
=22 =22 Volume 16, no. 1(January 1, 1942)
=22 =22 Volume 17, (April 15, 1943)
ArtNews, Volume 40, part 2 (November 1-14, 1941)
=22 =22 Volume 44 (August, 1945)
Magazine of Art, Volume 29, no. 4 (April, 1936)
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Exiles and Emigr=e9s: The Flight of European Artists f=
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Hitler
February 23 - May 11, 1997=
Immediately following the 1933 rise to power of the National Socialists in =
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Germany, there was unleashed an unprecedented forced migration of thousands=
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of professionals within and, in many cases, ultimately out of Europe. This =
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major exhibition will focus on the work of 23 well-known painters, =
sculptors, photographers, and architects in exile during the 12 years of =
Nazi rule. It will examine the impact of their emigration and the =
circumstances of their exile. The first section of the
show focuses on the wave of migration of German and Austrian artists who =
sought refuge in the European capitals of Paris, London, and Amsterdam, =
featuring the work of Vasily Kandinsky, Max Beckmann, John Heartfield, Kurt=
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Schwitters, and Oskar Kokoschka. The central part of the exhibition will be=
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devoted to the work of those artists who, after the 1930s, fled to America,=
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including Fernand L=e9ger, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, Marc Chagall, and Matta =
as =
well as architects Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, and Mies van der Rohe. Th=
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exhibition will attempt to explore the responses to these artists and their=
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work in the United States. It will include 130 paintings, sculptures, =
photographs, and graphics=3b 200 documents, posters, letters, and ephemera=3b=
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architectural reconstructions and models=3b and a specially commissioned =
15-minute film on American immigration policy. The exhibition will be =
designed by the internationally renown architect Frank O. Gehry.
Credit line: This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum=
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of Art. It was funded in part by grants from the National Endowment for the=
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Humanities, the National Endowment for the Arts, and Helen and Peter Bing.
Curators: Stephanie Barron, vice president of education and public programs=
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at LACMA, with the assistance of Sabine Eckmann, exhibition associate
Catalogue: Exiles and Emigr=e9s: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler=
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by Stephanie Barron with contributions by several international scholars=3b=
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copublished by LACMA and Harry N. Abrams, New York=3b approx. 400 pp.=3b 12=
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illus. in color, 260 illus. in black and white=3b softbound =2435, hardboun=
d =2475 =
at the LACMA museum shop.
Upcoming venues:
Mus=e9e des Beaux Arts de Montr=e9al 6/19/97 - 9/7/97
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 10/9/97 - 1/4/98
