Sherwin Simmons
Biographic Data
| ID | 6155850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sherwin Simmons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sherwin |
| FAMILY NAME | Simmons |
| SIGNATURE | SIMMONS S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sherwin Simmons, Associate Professor of Art History, teaches twentieth-century art and design at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. He is currently completing a book entitled Kunst oder Kitsch: Art and Mass Culture in Germany, 1900–1920 and researching German textile art during the 1910s. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Dancer’s Revenge
German writers became intensely interested in pantomime during the decade before World War I. While scholars have addressed the impact of pantomime upon dance and theater of the period, little discussion has focused on how it affected painting. I consider how Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s response to pantomime’s silent movement and metaphysical content influenced his depictions of dancers between 1912 and 1915. He had previously simply recorded various…
To stand and see within’
This essay examines Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Rhine Bridge at Cologne , one in a series of cityscapes that Kirchner painted during 1914–15, all of which treat monuments and spaces that had become important symbols within the German imagination. The painting's relationship to a discourse about a ‘modern Gothic’ style, as manifested in the 1912 Sonderbund chapel and a regional expressionist movement, are discussed. This relationship is shown to invol…
To stand and see within’
This essay examines Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Rhine Bridge at Cologne , one in a series of cityscapes that Kirchner painted during 1914–15, all of which treat monuments and spaces that had become important symbols within the German imagination. The painting's relationship to a discourse about a ‘modern Gothic’ style, as manifested in the 1912 Sonderbund chapel and a regional expressionist movement, are discussed. This relationship is shown to invol…
Men of Nails
Chaplin Smiles on the Wall
Hans Reimann, a writer and editor of satire during the Weimar Republic, published an essay in 1923 that, although unmentioned in recent scholarship, remains one of the most cogent and evocative sketches of George Grosz's character and artistic interests. Reimann placed particular stress on the role played in Grosz's development by serialized adventure stories, illustrated magazines, cheap oleographs, and cinema. This mass-produced popular culture…
Expressionism in the Discourse of Fashion
Kazimir Malevich 1878-1935-1978
Chaplin Smiles on the Wall
Hans Reimann, a writer and editor of satire during the Weimar Republic, published an essay in 1923 that, although unmentioned in recent scholarship, remains one of the most cogent and evocative sketches of George Grosz's character and artistic interests. Reimann placed particular stress on the role played in Grosz's development by serialized adventure stories, illustrated magazines, cheap oleographs, and cinema. This mass-produced popular culture…
Kazimir Malevich 1878-1935-1978
Expressionism in the Discourse of Fashion
Men of Nails
Chaplin Smiles on the Wall
Hans Reimann, a writer and editor of satire during the Weimar Republic, published an essay in 1923 that, although unmentioned in recent scholarship, remains one of the most cogent and evocative sketches of George Grosz's character and artistic interests. Reimann placed particular stress on the role played in Grosz's development by serialized adventure stories, illustrated magazines, cheap oleographs, and cinema. This mass-produced popular culture…
To stand and see within’
This essay examines Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Rhine Bridge at Cologne , one in a series of cityscapes that Kirchner painted during 1914–15, all of which treat monuments and spaces that had become important symbols within the German imagination. The painting's relationship to a discourse about a ‘modern Gothic’ style, as manifested in the 1912 Sonderbund chapel and a regional expressionist movement, are discussed. This relationship is shown to invol…
To stand and see within’
This essay examines Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Rhine Bridge at Cologne , one in a series of cityscapes that Kirchner painted during 1914–15, all of which treat monuments and spaces that had become important symbols within the German imagination. The painting's relationship to a discourse about a ‘modern Gothic’ style, as manifested in the 1912 Sonderbund chapel and a regional expressionist movement, are discussed. This relationship is shown to invol…
The Dancer’s Revenge
German writers became intensely interested in pantomime during the decade before World War I. While scholars have addressed the impact of pantomime upon dance and theater of the period, little discussion has focused on how it affected painting. I consider how Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s response to pantomime’s silent movement and metaphysical content influenced his depictions of dancers between 1912 and 1915. He had previously simply recorded various…
Art (7 works) · Art history (5 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · German (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Bridge (graph theory) (2 works) · Chapel (2 works)