German Visual Culture – serie
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Dada Archivist
Hannah Hoech, Kurt Schwitters and Berlin Dada
Av Stina Barchan, Christian Weikop
Inbunden, 2023
871 kr
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«With astuteness and feeling, Stina Barchan captures the wonderful friendship between Hannah Höch and Kurt Schwitters and their artistic affinities. She deftly traces how each threaded together archival treasures and different forms of three-dimensional montage in their homes and workspaces to …
Art of War
Av Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Barbara McCloskey
Inbunden, 2017
1288 kr
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War and trauma are fundamental human experiences and central to German history, especially in the twentieth century. Since the First World War, which some Germans celebrated as the chance to annihilate the old culture to make space for a new one, German art has been implicated in war. War and …
Representations of German Identity
Av Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Thomas O. Haakenson
Häftad, 2017
468 kr
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Who is «German»? What defines «Germanness»? These questions about national identity have continued to confound both Germans and foreign observers in light of Germany’s complex history: its changing borders between 1871 and 1989 make even a geographic definition of the nation complex, let alone …
Becoming TransGerman
Cultural Identity Beyond Geography
Av Thomas O. Haakenson, Tirza True Latimer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
964 kr
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This book is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary collection of essays by some of today’s most forward-thinking scholars. The contributors explore the ways in which the prefix «trans» erupts German identity and the identity of Germany itself. The volume calls German identity into question and examines …
Compressed Utterances
Collage in a Germanic Context after 1912
Av Cole Collins
Inbunden, 2022
991 kr
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«Compressed Utterances brings focused attention to collage in a Germanic context, whose contours and impact are still so little appreciated. As this stunning volume shows, collage serves as a key medium not only for understanding art historical developments but social and political transformations …
Sites of Interchange
Modernism, Politics and Culture between Britain and Germany, 1919–1955
Inbunden, 2021
914 kr
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Early twentieth-century Germany was a site of extremes, in which cultural production was entangled in the swiftly changing political and economic landscape. Radical utopias and pragmatic solutions for life and culture were proposed, modernism embraced and dramatically rejected. Britain in the same …
Medievalist’s Gaze
Christian Visual Rhetoric in Modern German Memorials (1950–2000)
Inbunden, 2021
914 kr
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«This book makes a strong case that memorials are embedded in local visual and historical traditions. While its comprehensive and detailed references make it a must-read for specialists, it will appeal not only to the many specialists working on memory and memorials, but also to general audiences …
Otto Dix and Weimar Media Culture
Time, Fashion and Photography in Portrait Paintings of the Neue Sachlichkeit
Av Anne Reimers
Inbunden, 2022
887 kr
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Otto Dix (1891–1969) was a leading figure of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement in painting in 1920s Germany. This groundbreaking study analyses for the first time in depth the relationship between Dix’s verist-realist portrait paintings and the rapidly expanding mass media culture of the Weimar era. …
Disorders at the Borders
In Search of the Gesamtkunstwerk in the Paintings of Anselm Kiefer
Av Matt Wates
Inbunden, 2021
995 kr
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Although Anselm Kiefer’s work is routinely compared with the Gesamtkunstwerk, the «total work of art» pioneered by Richard Wagner, Disorders at the Borders represents the first time this relationship has been thoroughly investigated. But it is a relationship that involves much more than just …
Otto Dix and the First World War
Grotesque Humor, Camaraderie and Remembrance
Av Michael Mackenzie, Christian Weikop
Inbunden, 2019
1047 kr
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Otto Dix fought in the First World War for the better part of four years before becoming one of the most important artists of the Weimar era. Marked by the experience, he made monumental, difficult and powerful works about it. Whereas Dix has often been presented as a lone voice of reason and …
Spectacle
Av Jennifer Creech, Thomas O. Haakenson
Inbunden, 2015
1260 kr
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How does the visual nature of spectacle inform the citizenry, destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic convention and celebrate cultural creativity? What are the limits – aesthetic, political, social, cultural, economic – of spectacle? How do we explain the inherently exclusionary, …
Doppelgaenger
Inbunden, 2016
1288 kr
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The Doppelgänger – the double, twin, mirror image or alter ego of someone else – is an ancient and universal theme that can be traced at least as far back as Greek and Roman mythology, but is particularly associated with two areas of study: psychology, and German literature and culture since the …
Emergency Noises
Sound Art and Gender
Av Irene Noy, Deborah Ascher Barnstone m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1097 kr
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Art history traditionally concentrates on the visual. Sound has either been ignored or has been appreciated in a highly selective manner within a different discipline: music. This book is about recent attempts by artists trained in (West) Germany to provoke listening experiences to awaken the …
Representations of German Identity
Inbunden, 2013
959 kr
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Who is «German»? What defines «Germanness»? These questions about national identity have continued to confound both Germans and foreign observers in light of Germany’s complex history: its changing borders between 1871 and 1989 make even a geographic definition of the nation complex, let alone …
