Expressionism and Poster Design in Germany 1905–1922

Kathleen G. Chapman, PhD, is an assistant professor of European modernism in the Department of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresIntroduction: Expressionism between Spirit and Commerce1 Illustration, Abstraction, Advertising: Wilhelm Worringer and the Continuities of German Art2 Hieroglyphic Appeal: The Visual Rhetoric of the German Object Poster, Werkbund Style, and Expressionist Art3 Promoting Expressionism before Expressionism: Künstlergruppe Brücke and Theories of the Modern Image before World War I4 From War to Revolution, from Propaganda to Art: Expressionism and Posters of the Revolutionary Period5 Expressionism after Expressionism: “Dead” Expressionism and Theories of the Modern Image after World War IConclusion: Expressionism as BuzzwordCopyright of FiguresBibliography

“This book is essential reading for all scholars on modern German art.”Christian Weikop, University of Edinburgh. In: Print Quarterly, Vol. 39, No. 4 (December 2022), pp. 471–474.