Few artists spanned the movements of early twentieth-century art as                  completely as did Hans Richter. Richter was a major force in the developments of                  expressionism, Dada, De Stijl, constructivism, and Surrealism, and the creator, with                  Viking Eggeling, of the abstract cinema. Along with Theo van Doesburg, L?szl?                  Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, and a few others, he is one of the artists crucial to an                  understanding of the role of the arts in the reconstruction era following World War                  I.Most American scholars have focused on Richter's film work and have favored a                  strictly formalist approach that separates art and politics. The contributors to                  this book rewrite Richter's history to include his pivotal role in the development                  of the early twentieth-century avant-garde and his political activism. When                  Richter's work, particularly that of his earlier, European career, is viewed in its                  historical and political context, he emerges as an artist committed to the power of                  art to change the fabric of social, political, and cultural affairs.

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