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Marc Brearley's ambitious reading of Schopenhauer, art, and art history reclaims the triumph of the will as a key factor unifying the varied movements of pictorial Expressionism. Philosophers and art historians, artists, and others who love philosophy and Expressionism will be invigorated, challenged, and enlightened by the many new insights of this study that forces us to move beyond our usual boundaries. As Brearley notes, August Macke, who died in the war's first days, wrote already in 1905 that he did not read Schopenhauer to go through hell and high water for some philosophical ideas, but instead to improve his thinking. -- Barbara C. Buenger, University of Wisconsin-Madison Marc Brealey does not conflate philosophy with history; rather, he shows the unique relation between them that was (or maybe still is) Expressionism. This is a complex and ambitious task and doubly important since no one else has attempted it. His salient goal is to get scholarly readers to see the benefit, the excitement, the sense of discovery that an interdisciplinary approach brings to a project that is so innovative - and always requires courage. -- Karl Toepfer, San Jose State University

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Marc Rufus Brealey, PhD, is independent scholar who specializes in synthesizing art history with philosophy.

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