The City through the Eyes of Expressionism

• Authors: Ján Demčišák
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The process of industrialization and urban growth and the development of cities in the first three decades of the 20th century are inevitably related to rapid social changes. The new attitude to life, which corresponds to this process, affected the aesthetic perception and the work of artists as well. The study shows the sensitiveness of German expressionism to the dynamics, drive and chaos of the new city life. The expressionistic picture of the city is clearly ambivalent; it oscillates between fascination on the one hand and antipathy on the other. Expressionism also reflects the social alienation and the feeling of being lonely in a crowd as new phenomena of the 20th century.

Keywords

EN

expressionism; the picture of the city; poetry; visual arts; cinema

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Ethnologia Actualis
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 79-96

Dates

published

2016-06-01

online

2016-11-08

Contributors

author

Ján Demčišák

• Deprtment of German Studies, University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/eas-2016-0005