Man in the art of expressionism. Nikolskaya I.

The collective monograph proposed to the reader is a large -scale research on one of the original areas of the art of our days. Unlike many approximate ideas about the historical fate of this phenomenon, we strive to show it as an art full of peculiar beauty and energy.

in the center of attention is a person - the main aesthetic category in the poetics of expressionism. The study in the new versions discuss the problems of the fate of man and humanity, declared by expressionist creativity as no other. This topic turned out to be relevant in the 1910s and 20s of the last century, and in the second half of the twentieth century, and against the background of tests of World War II. The authors of the monograph tried not to separate a person immersed in the dramatic turns of the surrounding world and suffering from his own imperfection, from the ideals of humanity and universal brotherhood. And although not all the artistic and philosophical concepts of man and the world proposed by expressionists withstood the tests of time, they had their providence, which cannot be ignored. The thoughts of the authors are covered by searches in the field of literature, fine art, architecture, music, cinema. The problem of the interaction of art is especially posed.

The book is designed for a thinking person, interested in the fate of the reader’s artistic culture.