Expressionism in Art Psychoanalyzed.

This article focuses on the book "Expressionism in Art; its Psychological and Biological Basis," by Oscar Pfister. Pfister confines his study of expressionism to those abnormal products of the modern art movements which have aroused such scorn and derision, and which exhibit a revolutionary spirit akin to the bolshevist spirit. Pfister was led to deal with this subject by the method of psychoanalysis through a patient, a French artist of high accomplishment, whom the war had wrecked nervously, and who came to him for treatment.