Expressionism Reassessed

The origins of expressionism and the notion of gesamtkunstwerk / Peter Vergo -- Concepts of expressionism in Scandinavia / Marit Werenskiold -- Expressionism in exile in Great Britain / J.M. Ritchie --Expressionism: a health warning / David Elliott -- 'The ascent to nature': some metaphors of 'Nature' in early expressionist art / Gill Perry -- Expressionist sculpture c. 1910-30 and the significance of its dual architectural/ideological frame / Erich Ranfft --Expressionist architecture today / Dennis Sharp -- Expressionism and film: the testament of Dr. Caligari / Werner Sudendorf -- Musical expressionism: the search for autonomy / Christopher Hailey -- 'Wilde Musik': composers, critics and expressionism / Peter Franklin -- Defining musical expressionism: Schoenberg and others / Stephen Hinton -- The body and the dance: Kirchner's Swiss work as expressionism / Colin Rhodes -- Expressionism and dance: a literary perspective / Manfred Kuxdorf -- The religious element in expressionism theatre / Raymond Furness -- Deciphering Wassily Kandinsky's Violet: activist expressionism and the Russian Slavonic mileau / Shulamith Behr --Lothar Schreyer's theatre works and the use of masks / Brian Keith-Smith --Culture and anarchy in expressionist drama / Rhys Williams.