Nell Walden, Der Sturm, and the Collaborative Cultures of Modern Art

Nell Waldens impact on the Sturm organisation is explored through a feminist reading of supportive labour, highlighting the centrality of collaborative work in the modern art world. The book contextualises her art production within expressionist concepts and gendered ideas on abstraction and decoration, and analyses her collaboration with professional and experimental women photographers during the Weimar era. It also examines her continuing work for Der Sturm after her exile from Germany in 1933, highlighting the importance of womens supportive labour for the canonisation and institutionalisation of modern art.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 27 May 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Nell Waldens significant impact on the Sturm organisation is revealed through a feminist reading of supportive labour in the modern art world. This book introduces Walden as an ardent collector of modern and indigenous art and critically contextualises her own art production in relation to expressionist concepts of art and to gendered ideas on abstraction and decoration. Visual analyses highlight how she collaborated with professional and experimental women photographers during the Weimar era and how the circulation of these photographs served as a means to intervene in the public sphere of culture in interwar Germany. Finally, the book provides an analysis of Waldens continuing work for Der Sturm after her voluntary exile from Germany to Switzerland in 1933 and highlights the importance of womens supportive labour for the canonisation and institutionalisation of modern art in museums and archives. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, and gender studies.

Weight: 566g
Dimension: 245 x 174 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367566876