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Branches & Twigs
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Die panafrikanische „Charter for African Cultural Renaissance“
This study is dedicated to the postcolonial preservation of cultural heritage and restitution policies within the framework of the Charter for African Cultural Renaissance as a Pan-African instrument of international law. The author – holder of the UNESCO Chair in International Relations and vice president of the curatorium of the African Institute of International Law (AIIL) – analyses the multifaceted significance of the Charter as well as the role of the African Union, UNESCO and Western museums regarding specifically the return of cultural goods from colonial contexts. The work further illustrates how the international discourse is shifting towards an active support for reconciliation and return processes.
Performing Salome, Revealing Stories
With its first public live performance in Paris on 11 February 1896, Oscar Wilde's Salomé took on female embodied form that signalled the start of 'her' phenomenal journey through the history of the arts in the twentieth century. This volume explores Salome's appropriation and reincarnation across the arts - not just Wilde's heroine, nor Richard Strauss's - but Salome as a cultural icon in fin-de-siècle society, whose appeal for ever new interpretations of the biblical story still endures today. Using Salome as a common starting point, each chapter suggests new ways in which performing bodies reveal alternative stories, narratives and perspectives and offer a range and breadth of source ma...
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Gerhard Richter, Individualism, and Belonging in West Germany
This book reevaluates the art of Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) in relation to his efforts to achieve belonging in the face of West Germany’s increasing individualism between the 1960s and the 1990s. Richter fled East Germany in 1961 to escape the constraints of socialist collectivism. His varied and extensive output in the West attests to his greater freedom under capitalism, but also to his struggles with belonging in a highly individualised society, a problem he was far from alone in facing. The dynamic of increasing individualism has been closely examined by sociologists, but has yet to be employed as a framework for understanding broader trends in recent German art history. Rather than critique this development from a socialist perspective or experiment with new communal structures like a number of his colleagues, Richter sought and found security in traditional modes of bourgeois collectivity, like the family, religion, painting and the democratic capitalist state. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history as well as German history, culture and politics.
Die neue Frauenbewegung und der Nationalsozialismus
Die neue Frauenbewegung stritt in den 1970er Jahren nicht nur für die Gleichberechtigung der Geschlechter in der Bundesrepublik, sondern auch über den Umgang mit dem Nationalsozialismus. Sie näherte sich auf neue Weise der unbewältigten Vergangenheit und stellte das Gespräch und die Identifikation mit Frauen in den Mittelpunkt. Dabei bildete sie auch starke Erinnerungsbilder weiblicher Opferschaft heraus - die Jüdinnen und Schwarze Frauen in den 1980er Jahren vehement kritisierten. Sina Speit zeigt mit ihrer kulturwissenschaftlichen Analyse der feministischen Erinnerungskultur nach 1968 die Wurzeln von Konflikten einer gendered memory auf, die bis heute die Erinnerung an den Nationalsozialismus prägen.
