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Secession 18921914 is the companion publication to the exhibition The Munich Secession and America, published by the Frye Art Museum and Museum Villa Stuck in Munich and edited by Michael Buhrs, director, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich. This gorgeously illustrated volume presents new scholarship on the Munich Secession and the Munich Künstlergenossenschaft, (the influential artists association which preceded it) in essays by specialists in the Bettina Best, Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Margot Th. Brandlhuber, Horst G. Ludwig, and Clelia Segieth. Frye Foundation Scholar Jo-Anne Birnie Danzkers essay focuses on the role of Charles and Emma Frye and other Americans in disseminating interest in the art of this period in the United States. The hardcover catalogue features 250 illustrations, including works from the Frye Collection and many European museums