Picturing Socialism

Public Art and Design in East Germany

AvJ. R. Jenkins

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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This vibrant history of the former German Democratic Republic’s public art reveals a barely known but visually and theoretically rich cultural legacy. Picturing Socialism shows how works of art and design in the urban spaces of East Germany were the site of a sustained struggle between practitioners, critics and political leaders. This was not the oft-assumed conflict between artistic freedom and political dogma; at stake was the self-identity of the republic as socialist. Art and its relationship to architecture functioned as the testing ground for East Germany’s relationship to socialist realism and modernism against the backdrop of Cold War competition from the neighbouring Federal Republic.Picturing Socialism makes a timely contribution to the recent groundswell of interest in the legacy of East Germany’s art and architecture, illuminating and elucidating the public art which has been lost or remains under threat since unification in 1990.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-02-25
Mått:160 x 236 x 20 mm
Vikt:530 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781350067141

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J.R. Jenkins is a design historian and writer on graphic design and teaches design contexts at Falmouth University, UK.

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In this lavishly illustrated account J. R. Jenkins shows how public art, craft, design and architecture became key elements in the socialist imaginary. Picturing Socialism takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the former East Germany: from steel and coal cities, to science and technology centres and ports. Containing an extraordinary visual record of many rapidly vanishing works of art, the book draws on fascinating interviews and contemporary debates. Picturing Socialism is an important and timely addition to studies of Cold War history and politics.

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List of FiguresList of PlatesPrefaceAcknowledgementsGlossary and AbbreviationsIntroductionPart One: Reconstruction, Art and Ornament (1945 to 1963)1. Modernism, Realism and Muralism – the Struggle for Art in Post-fascist Germany2. The Synthesis of Art and Architecture During the Transition to Industrialized BuildingPart Two: Developing a Realist Modernism (1959 to 1973)3. Reconceptualizing the Place of Art in the System-built Environment4. New Socialist Landscapes and the Building of Halle-Neustadt 5. Innovations in Socialist Public Art in Halle-NeustadtPart Three: From the Monumental to the Unreal (1973–1990)6. A Space of Pure Possibility: The X. Weltfestspiele and its Impact on Public Art7. ‘Ultimately, Ordinary People Want to Have a Bit of Kitsch': How Socialist Realism Looked UnrealConclusionSelect Bibliography List of IntervieweesIndex