About the Author

Timothy O. Benson is Curator of the Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Reviews

"Expressionist Utopias demonstrates how artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Hans Poelzig, and Erich Mendelsohn 'transformed their expectations of a natural paradise into the promise of a man-made cultural utopia. 'Their work set the stage for the pragmatism that emerged in the art and architecture of the 1920s. The themes of paradise, metropolis, and architectural fantasy lent continuity to expressionism from its beginnings in 1905 to its outgrowth in the film and stage productions of the 1920s." - Journal of the Print World "This beautifully appointed volume of essays by five leading scholars offers an in-depth examination of an often overlooked aspect of German Expressionism - its utopian dimension and imagery." - Milka T. Bliznakov, Utopian Studies "[A] brilliant fusion of art and architecture." - Michael Webb, Los Angeles Architect "A very smart catalogue....[It] defaltes smug expectations and inflates insight." - William Wilson, Los Angeles Times"