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Exile and migration played a critical role in the diffusion and development of modernism around the globe, yet have long remained largely understudied phenomena within art historiography. Focusing on the intersections of exile, artistic practice and urban space, this volume brings together contributions by international researchers committed to revising the historiography of modern art. It pays particular attention to metropolitan areas that were settled by migrant artists in the first half of the 20th century. These arrival cities developed into hubs of artistic activities and transcultural contact zones where ideas circulated, collaborations emerged, and concepts developed. Taking six majo...
This is the first book to develop a postmigrant analytical perspective for the study of art, concentrating on how postmigration reopens the study of contemporary art and migration. The book introduces art historians and other scholars with a methodological interest in cultural analysis to the innovative concept of postmigration, offering a comprehensive introduction to the various meanings and uses of the term as well as translating it methodologically to an art historical context. The book analyses art projects from Denmark, Germany and Great Britain, which address some of the current challenges to European societies of immigration, and by drawing on theory from fields such as migration studies, transcultural studies and feminist, postcolonial and political theory, as well as re-engaging established concepts such as imagination, commemoration, belonging, identity, racialization, community, public space and participation. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, art and politics, migration studies, and transcultural studies.
Rather than centering on the well-known collections in Western European and North American museums, Collecting Asian Art turns to museum collections of Asian art in Central Europe which emerged from the late 19th century onwards. Highlighting the dimensions of Central European connectedness, this volume explores how these collections evolved and changed under changing cultural and political conditions from the pre-World War I to the post-World War II periods. With a primary focus on collections of East Asian, South Asian, and West Asian art in Vienna, Prague, Berlin, Warsaw, Kraków, Budapest, and Ljubljana, it outlines the transregional connections and networks that gradually developed. Col...
Since the mid-nineteenth century photography has played a central role in cultural encounters within and between migrant communities in the United States. Migrant histories have been mediated through the photographic image, and the cultural practices of photography have themselves been transformed as migrant communities mobilise the photographic image to navigate experiences of cultural dislocation and the forging of new identities. Exploring photographic images and the cultural practices of photography as ‘contact zones’ through which cultural exchange and transformation takes place, this volume addresses the role of photography in migrant histories in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century to today. Taking as its focal point photography’s role in shaping migrant experiences of cultural transformation, and how migrant experiences have re-configured culturally differentiated practices of photography, case studies on migration from Europe, Central America, and North America position photography as entwined with cultural histories of migration and cultural transformation in the United States.
How did exiled musicians from Germany and Austria, who reached safety at Kitchener Camp in Britain, find themselves in an Australian internment camp in New South Wales in 1940? What were the institutions that helped Jewish refugee musicians survive in wartime Shanghai? What happened to Austrian musicians who were trapped in the Netherlands after the German occupation? These and other questions, and the larger stories they refer to, form the compelling content of this book. Other topics include the struggle of the Vienna operetta composers Granichstaedten and Katscher in USA, the relationship of émigré composer Berthold Goldschmidt to his native Hamburg and the reception of his ‘exile opera’ Beatrice Cenci. Studies of Mischa Spoliansky’s music for the movie Mr. Emmanuel(1944) and Franz Reizenstein’s radio opera Anna Kraus form part of the fourteen essays on exile musical history in Britain, Europe, USA, Australia and the Far East, based on cutting edge archival research and interviews by leading scholars.
Der Titel dieses Sammelbandes – Leave, left, left – wurde inspiriert von Jenny Erpen-becks Roman Gehen, ging, gegangen (2015), mit dem die Autorin auf aktuelle Fluchtbewegungen nach Deutschland reagierte. Überdies verweist die temporale Konjugation des Verbs to leave auf die unterschiedlichen Zeitlichkeiten einer Flucht, die von dem Entschluss zu gehen über die Passage bis zur Ankunft im Zielland reicht. Kommen Geflüchtete in einem Land an, dann wird aus dem leave die Perfektform left, also eine aus Perspektive der vollendeten Gegenwart abgeschlossene Handlung, die in der Vergangenheit liegt. Diese Vergangenheit ist jedoch nicht unbedingt endgültig und kann sich jederzeit wieder änd...
An examination of shifting notions of identity in modern-day Germany--and the diverse artists challenging conventional meanings of "Germanness" today Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation addresses important questions of contemporary art and belonging in Germany from the 1980s, when discussions about multiculturalism in West Germany came to the fore, to our current time, a period still deeply impacted by the country's unification and more recent migration policies. In the wake of these developments, racial violence, right-wing populism, and ethnically defined nationalism have grown. Accessible essays on topics such as labor migration, being Black in Germany, and the aftermath ...
Das Jahrbuch beleuchtet das komplexe Spektrum an Emotionen, das mit Exilerfahrungen verbunden ist und neben Trauer und Heimweh auch Angst, Wut, Erleichterung und Dankbarkeit umfasst. Wie die Beiträge zu historischen und aktuellen Exiltexten zeigen, ist es gerade die Literatur, die dieses bislang unzureichend erforschte Themenfeld nuanciert verhandelt und so ein Archiv für eine erst noch zu schreibende Gefühlsgeschichte des Exils darstellt.
Begriffe wie Flucht, (Zwangs-)Migration, Vertreibung, Asyl oder Diaspora beschreiben Phänomene, die auch von der Exilforschung verhandelt werden. Der Band versammelt interdisziplinäre Beiträge, die ihren Gemeinsamkeiten, aber auch den mit ihnen aufgerufenen unterschiedlichen Konnotationen und Kontexten nachspüren. Anliegen ist, für die Implikationen von Begriffen und Narrativen zu sensibilisieren und Dialoge zwischen Disziplinen anzuregen.
In transnational-vergleichender Perspektive werden historische Entwicklung und Bedeutung von Überlebendenorganisationen untersucht. Die nationalsozialistische Verfolgungs- und Vernichtungspolitik traf Millionen Menschen aus Europa und anderen Teilen der Welt. Nach der Befreiung entstanden zahlreiche Initiativen und Organisationen ihrer Überlebenden. Die Landschaft aus informellen Netzwerken, Amicales, Komitees, Lagergemeinschaften, nationalen Interessenverbänden und internationalen Dachorganisationen versammelte jüdische wie nicht-jüdische Verfolgte, Antifaschist:innen aus dem Exil, ehemalige Angehörige des Widerstands, Veteranen, kommunistische wie auch nicht-kommunistische Engagierte...