THE NUDE, THE EXOTIC AND THE CULT OF NATURE CURATED BY SIMON THEOBALD (IFPDA)
The German Expressionists created striking images of the city during the inter-war period. Alongside this, however, they championed nature, landscapes, and the nude – channelling a rousing escapist impulse into their work. The city represented repression; from the early twentieth century, the Cult of Nature was celebrated as an escape from all this – from decadence, from conformity … Continued