Erotic Art in Modern Germany

Camilla Smith is Associate Professor in Art History in the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of Jeanne Mammen (Bloomsbury, 2023) and has published widely on erotic visual culture in Oxford Art Journal, Art History, and The Art Bulletin.Ty Vanover is an instructor in the department of Art & Art History at Dickinson College. His work has appeared in Oxford Art Journal, Arts, and Ikonotheka.

An exciting, wide-ranging collection that guides the reader into new ways of seeing erotic art, and the erotic past. It reveals an underappreciated breath of sexual desires, bodies, genders, and sexual practices, in a tour de force of empirical richness and cross-disciplinary conceptual sophistication. A serious contribution to the field!

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsSeries Editor Introduction, Thomas O. HaakensonIntroduction, Camilla Smith and Ty VanoverPart One: Locating Eroticism: Centres and Periphery1. “Hans Licht”: Bringing Homosexuality into the Light, Whitney Davis (University of California, Berkeley, USA; NOMIS Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland)2. Kirchner’s Kama-sutra: Indian Erotica and Orientalist Fantasies in Imperial Germany, Sol Izquierdo de la Viña (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)3. Rudolf Wacker’s Drawings of Sexual Graffiti as Intimate Ethnology, Änne Söll (Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany)Part Two: Queer Desire and Gender Non-Conformity4. Fantasies of Lesbian Desire in Max Klinger’s Zelt (Pavilion; 1916), Clare I. Rogan (Detroit Institute of Arts, USA)5. Charlotte Berend-Corinth, Anita Berber, and Female Erotica in the Weimar Republic, Abbey Rees-Hales (University of Birmingham, UK)6. Hiding in the Surface: Platonic Eros and the Work of Sascha Schneider, Christiane Starck (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany)7. Spiritualism Homoeroticism: The Sexual Utopia of Elisàr von Kupffer and Eduard von Mayer, Damien Delille (Université Lumière Lyon 2, France)Part Three: Body Politics: Possibilities and Foreclosures8. Otto Dix’s Soldier and Nun (Rape) (1924): A Testimony to War or Sexual Violence?, Marie Gispert (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)9. Eros, Architecture, and Photography: Heinz Hajek-Halke and German Surrealism, Camilla Smith (University of Birmingham, UK)10. The Allure of the Ideal: Homoerotic Art for the Third Reich, Ty Vanover (Dickinson College, USA)Index