Expressionism and poster design in Germany 1905-1922

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Introduction : Expressionism between spirit and commerce -- Illustration, abstraction, advertising : Wilhelm Worringer and the continuities of German art -- Hieroglyphic appeal : the visual rhetoric of the German object poster -- Werkbund style, and expressionist art -- Promoting expressionism before expressionism : Kunstlergruppe Brücke and theories of the modern image before World War I -- From war to revolution, from propaganda to art : expressionism and posters of the revolutionary period -- Expressionism after expressionism : "dead" expressionism and theories of the modern image after World War I -- Conclusion : expressionism as buzzword