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Article: Max Beckmann Still Shocks Viewers With His Greatness.(Arts&Entertainment)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2003
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Byline: Hilton Kramer
It has always been a conundrum for established opinion in the New York art world: how to come to terms with the German painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950), whose work is the subject of a riveting retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Long Island City, Queens. Beckmann was too big a figure--too ambitious, too demanding, too accomplished--to be ignored, yet he could not be easily accommodated, either. For tastes that were decisively determined early by the School of Paris and then by the New York School, he remained an enigmatic outsider. And it didn't help his cause that he was also irrepressibly outspoken in his criticism of the kinds of ...
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