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Parallel Public
How East German artists made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice their art in the shadows, on the margins, hiding away from the Stasi’s prying eyes. In fact, as Sara Blaylock shows, many cultivated a critical influence over the very bureaucracies meant to keep them in line, undermining state authority through forthright rather than covert projects. In Parallel Public, Blaylock describes how some East German artists made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life, creating an alternative to the crumbling collective underpinnings of th...
Beckmann
Brings together more than 60 of Beckmann's works, including paintings, lithographs and sculptures. The publication offers a full overview of Beckmann's life and career
Max Beckmann in New York
In December 1950, the German Expressionist Max Beckmann set out from his Manhattan apartment to see his Self-Portrait in Blue Jacket, on view at The Met, when he suffered a fatal heart attack. Inspired by the poignant circumstances of the artist’s death, Max Beckmann in New York focuses on 40 beautifully illustrated works that Beckmann painted in the city during the last 16 months of his life, as well as earlier works in New York collections. An informative and accessible essay by art historian Sabine Rewald, as well as detailed catalogue entries for each work and generous excerpts from the artist’s letters, diaries, and ephemera, illuminate Beckmann’s difficult and tumultuous life and make this an essential volume for anyone interested in the artist.
Mit einem Koffer voller Sehnsucht nach Berlin
Was treibt Menschen dazu ihre Heimat zu verlassen, um in eine ungewisse Zukunft nach Berlin aufzubrechen? Dieser Frage ist Anita Rehm in Gesprächen mit zwölf Künstlerinnen und Künstlern aus verschiedenen Ländern und Arbeitsbereichen nachgegangen. Mit ihrem Handy als Fotoapparat und dem Notizblock in der Hand, ist die Berliner Journalistin und Autorin losgezogen und hat Kunstschaffende in Berlin besucht, über die sie in den 80er Jahren bereits einmal Fernsehreportagen erstellt hatte. Auf ihren Streifzügen sind ein paar neue Gesichter dazugestoßen und mit allen hat Anita Rehm sich unterhalten und die Gespräche samt einiger Schnappschüsse anschließend zu Papier gebracht. Sie erfuhr d...
Hexenwahn
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Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936
This book examines the confrontational war pictures of Otto Dix (18911969) and explores their role in shaping the memory of World War I in Germany from 1914 to 1936. Dix's thirty-eight months on the World War I battlefields profoundly influenced his post-war artistic career, saw him produce some of the most enduring images of the conflict and establish himself as one of Europe's leading modernists. Offering substantial new research and presenting numerous primary sources to an English readership for the first time, the book examines Dix's war pictures within the broader visual culture of war in order to assess how they functioned alternatively as cutting-edge modernist art and transgressive war commemoration. Each chapter provides a case study of the first public display of one or more of Dix's war pictures at key exhibitions and explores how their reception was subjected to changing socio-political and cultural conditions as well as divergent attitudes to the lost war. Bringing a unique perspective and original scholarship to Dix's war works, this book is essential reading for art historians of World War I and the visual culture of Weimar Germany.
Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel
The palace's collection of art and antiquities.
Catalogue raisonné of his sketchbooks
Published for the first time in book form, these sketchbooks offer the perfect opportunity to rediscover the previously repressed work of Ludwig Meidner, an important German-Jewish artist. The artist's sketches are extraordinary works of art and all 51 of Meidner's known sketchbooks are reproduced for the first time in this stunning and unique volume.
Riechen und Gerüche
Seit den frühen 1980er Jahren hat sich die Forschung zur Kulturgeschichte des Geruchssinns vom Nischenansatz zu einem gewichtigen Zweig der Historiografie entwickelt, der auch die Medien, Projekte, Themen und Tropen der Kunst, Musik und Literatur in ein neues Licht rückt. Der Expressionismus, der häufig als spezifisch deutsche Bewegung gilt, hat in der einschlägigen Forschung, die vor allem im anglo- und frankophonen Sprachraum betrieben wird, bislang zu Unrecht nur wenig Beachtung gefunden. Die expressionistische Zivilisations- und Kulturkritik in Literatur, Kunst und Film thematisiert oft geruchsintensive Erfahrungen von Krieg, Tod und Verfall, und sie stellt den Versuch einer hygienis...
