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documenta
Every few years since 1955, the creators of documenta set themselves the task of providing an insight into current trends in art and of capturing the zeitgeist of recent art production. Despite its name, documenta’s primary concerns are neither with the simple documentation of individual artists and their work nor with developments in art history, but instead with providing a historical space where art reflects and comments on social constellations and political or social change, or demands it through art interventions. documenta is not only a historical testimony and event, but also a show at which – through the medium of art— self-interpretation becomes the catalyst for debate and historical change. For the first time, this book places the history of documenta in the context of the political, cultural and societal development of Germany during the second half of the twentieth century, illustrating how art and history can be explored in terms of a mutually dependent relationship.
Uniform Fantasies
Starting in the nineteenth century in Germany, colourful military uniforms became a locus for various queer male fantasies, fostering an underground sexual economy of male prostitution as well as a political project to exploit the army’s prestige for queer emancipation. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, a series of scandals derailed this emancipatory project. Simultaneously, public debates began to invoke homosexuality, sadism, transvestism, and other sexological concepts to criticize military policies and practices. In pursuing the threads with which queer authors and activists stitched their fantasies about uniforms, Jeffrey Schneider offers fresh perspectives on key...
A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework
A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework explores the ways specialists and institutions in the fine arts, curation, cultural studies, and art history have attempted to situate art in a more global framework since the 1980s. Offering analyses of the successes and setbacks of these efforts to globalize the art world, this innovative volume presents a new and exciting way of considering art in its global contexts. Essays by an international panel of leading scholars and practicing artists assert that what we talk about as ‘art’ is essentially a Western concept, thus any attempts at understanding art in a global framework require a revising of established conceptual definitions....
Architect of Letters
News on Ludwig Hilberseimer! Ludwig Hilberseimer (1885–1967) is regarded as one of the leading theorists of the Neues Bauen movement in pre-War Germany, and of modern, functional urbanism. This set of accomplishments still dominates the public image of the architect, urban planner, teacher and art critic to this day. His development beyond that period has long been neglected. The essays in this collection seek to fill this gap, offering an exciting and wide-ranging new perspective on the work of a central protagonist of modernism. Until now, most critical studies of Hilberseimer's work came from his place of exile in Chicago and his work in Germany/Europe and the USA tended to be viewed separately; this volume is the first to attempt to end this separation and encourage a complete overview of is work. Previously unknown archival discoveries With contributions by Alexander Eisenschmidt, Magdalena Droste, Christine Mengin, Philipp Oswalt, Robin Schuldenfrei, Charles Waldheim and others
Big Plans!
90 years after the Bauhaus first opened its doors in Dessau, Big Plans! Modern Types, Dreamers, and Inventors is the first publication to prove that the Bauhaus was not the only forum for the international avant-garde, but part of a large, Modernist utopia.A futurist industrial region grew up in central Germany from 1919 to 1933; it was closely linked to visionary and idealized plans for a new image of humanity, realized in everything from architecture, education, and advertising to the notion of space exploration.The exhibition includes correspondence sent from the Bauhaus to Magdeburg, Halle (Saale), Leuna, Merseburg, Wolfen, and Elbingerorde.This intriguing companion volume opens up a view into a highly active field of dynamic, exploratory ideas coming from participants such as Walter Gropius, Xanti Schawinsky, Bruno Taut, and Wilhelm Deffke.English text.
Redeeming Objects
Redeeming Objects traces the afterlives of things. Out of the rubble of World War II and the Holocaust, the Federal Republic of Germany emerged, and with it a foundational myth of the "economic miracle." In this narrative, a new mass consumer society based on the production, export, and consumption of goods would redeem West Germany from its Nazi past and drive its rebirth as a truly modern nation. Turning this narrative on its head, Natalie Scholz shows that West Germany's consumerist ideology took shape through the reinvention of commodities previously tied to Nazism into symbols of Germany's modernity, economic supremacy, and international prestige. Postwar advertising, film, and print culture sought to divest mass-produced goods--such as the Volkswagen and modern interiors--of their fascist legacies. But Scholz demonstrates that postwar representations were saturated with unacknowledged references to the Nazi past. Drawing on a vast array of popular and highbrow publications and films, Redeeming Objects adds a new perspective to debates about postwar reconstruction, memory, and consumerism.
Gropius House Contemporary
The ensemble of Masters' Houses in Dessau became the epitome of an artists' colony in the 1920s: this was where the Bauhaus Masters lived next door to one another. With the Bauhaus Residency Programme, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation makes it possible for young artists to once again live and work in the Masters' Houses. The publication presents the programme, the exhibition House Gropius Contemporary, and the artists-in-residence at the Bauhaus in the years 2016 to 2018 and examines the influence of architecture on creative processes, the importance of artistic residencies, and the relevance of the Bauhaus for artistic practice today.
Kunst, Raum, Autorschaft
Obwohl Raum und Autorschaft viel diskutiert werden, ist eine Verbindung beider Konzepte bisher kaum erfolgt. Unter dem theorieaffinen Ansatz der Autorgeografie verbindet Alexia Pooth erstmals das Zum-Künstler-Machen und -Gemacht-Werden mit der Produktion von Räumlichkeit (Stadt, Landschaft, Innenraum, Nation). Ausgangspunkt für dieses kritische Nachdenken ist der US-amerikanische »self-taught artist« Clifford Holmead Phillips (1889-1975). Anhand seines in den USA und Europa situierten Nachlasses fokussiert die Studie Stilisierungs- und Platzierungsprozesse von Kunst und Künstlerschaft und spürt den Mythen und Sprechperspektiven nach, die ›vor Ort‹ zur Ausbildung von Autorschaft beitragen.
Ästhetische Ordnungen und Politiken des Wohnens
Wohnen ist geprägt von Vorstellungswelten, die in bildlichen und räumlichen Medien entworfen werden. Seit 1800 werden Beziehungen zwischen Bewohner*innenschaft, Räumlichkeit und Dingen als identitätsproduzierende Verhältnisse und gemeinschaftsbildende Prozesse formiert, ästhetisch gestaltet und in verschiedenen Bildsorten, Genres, Bildstrategien und visuellen Verfahren hervorgebracht. Die Beiträger*innen des Bandes fragen nach Zusammenhängen von Bildprozessen und Bedeutungsproduktionen und -verschiebungen im Domestischen und Häuslichen. Sie diskutieren das Mannigfaltige wie das Reproduktive, das Innovative wie das Affirmative des Ästhetischen - und damit die Potenzialität des Bildlichen im Wohnen.
Museen in der Verantwortung
Die Debatten um den Nachlass von Hildebrand Gurlitt und die Sammlung E. G. Bührle sowie die Kontroverse um koloniales Raubgut haben gezeigt, dass die Restitution von Kunstwerken und Kulturgütern zu den brisantesten Themen der Gegenwart gehört. Geht es um Raubkunst, ist oft die Rede von »problematischen Eigentumsverhältnissen«, »belasteten Kunstwerken«, »schwierigem Erbe« oder auch von »Werten, um die gestritten werden müsse«. Dabei geht es nicht allein um den materiellen Wert von Kunstwerken oder Vorgänge in der Vergangenheit. Vielmehr bestimmen heutige Sichtweisen auf gewaltsame Ereignisse in der Geschichte den Umgang mit Kunst- und Kulturgütern. Welche Folgen hat Kunstraub aus historischer, rechtshistorischer, juristischer und Museumssicht? Wie können Gedächtnisinstitutionen wie Museen ihre Verantwortung. gestalten? Und welche Rolle haben die Opfer nationalsozialistischer Verfolgung und ihre Nachfahren dabei? Aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven wird Position zu den aktuellen Fragen bezogen. Fallstudien zeigen exemplarisch auf, wie Verfolgung, Flucht und Raub mit dem Aufbau von Sammlungen und dem Kunsthandel zusammenhängen.
