Table of Contents

Carl Einstein: A Life Carl Einstein: An Introduction 1. The Lost Wanderer 2. Sculpture Ungrounded 3. Cubism's Passion 4. The Double Style 5. Private Mythologies

About the Author

Sebastian Zeidler is Associate Professor of the History of Art at Yale University.

Reviews

"With Form as Revolt, Sebastian Zeidler offers a learned, eloquent, and extremely rigorous account of Einstein's intellectual career and the ways that it illuminates crucial modernist artifacts and texts. Zeidler paints Carl Einstein as a fascinating, dynamic, often hermetic figure whose seminal writings are central not only to art history but to intellectual history and German literary studies as well."-Christopher D. Johnson, The Warburg Institute, University of London "Sebastian Zeidler has a unique capacity to bring philosophical thought to bear on modern art. The result is not only the most comprehensive study on Carl Einstein in English but also a thoroughly fresh account of cubism."-David Joselit, Distinguished Professor, Graduate Center, CUNY "One of the most brilliant, idiosyncratic, and elusive thinkers of the last century, Carl Einstein has remained on the margins of academic discourse until now. Fortunately, however, his work appears at last to be poised for its belated reception, and there is no doubt that Sebastian Zeidler's ambitious book will play an important role in this rediscovery. Rigorously erudite yet remarkably readable, Form as Revolt encompasses a biography and oeuvre that thwart easy synopsis while simultaneously generating profound insights into the cultural history and intellectual landscape of the early twentieth century more generally."-Devin Fore, Princeton University