Art And Resistance In Germany

Author : Deborah Ascher Barnstone,Elizabeth Otto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501344886

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Art and Resistance in Germany by Deborah Ascher Barnstone,Elizabeth Otto Pdf

In light of the recent rise of right-wing populism in numerous political contexts and in the face of resurgent nationalism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, and demagoguery, this book investigates how historical and contemporary cultural producers have sought to resist, confront, confound, mock, or call out situations of political oppression in Germany, a country which has seen a dramatic range of political extremes during the past century. While the current turn to nationalist populism is global, it is perhaps most disturbing in Germany, given its history with its stormy first democracy in the interwar Weimar Republic; its infamous National Socialist (Nazi) period of the 1930s and 1940s; and its split Cold-War existence, with Marxist-Leninist Totalitarianism in the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany's barely-hidden ties to the Nazi past. Equally important, Germans have long considered art and culture critical to constructions of national identity, which meant that they were frequently implicated in political action. This book therefore examines a range of work by artists from the early twentieth century to the present, work created in an array of contexts and media that demonstrates a wide range of possible resistance.

Author : Bernd Langer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Anti-fascist movements
ISBN : OCLC:1236241667

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Art as Resistance by Bernd Langer Pdf

Author : Justus Rosenberg
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062742216

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The Art of Resistance by Justus Rosenberg Pdf

"Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew’s flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground.” —USA Today An American Library in Paris Book Award "Coups de Coeur" Selection The Art of Resistance is unlike any World War II memoir before it. Its author, Justus Rosenberg, has spent the past seventy years teaching the classics of literature to American college students. Hidden within him, however, was a remarkable true story of wartime courage and romance worthy of a great novel. Here is Professor Rosenberg’s elegant and gripping chronicle of his youth in Nazi-occupied Europe, when he risked everything to stand against evil. In 1937, after witnessing a violent Nazi mob in his hometown of Danzig, a majority German city on the Baltic Sea, sixteen-year-old Justus Rosenberg was sent by his Jewish parents to Paris to finish his education in safety. Three years later, the Nazis came again, as France fell to the Germans. Alone and in danger, Justus fled Paris, heading south. A chance meeting led him to Varian Fry, an American journalist in Marseille who led a clandestine network helping thousands of men and women—including many legendary artists and intellectuals, among them Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, Andre Breton, and Max Ernst—escape the Nazis. With his intimate understanding of French and German culture, and fluency in several languages, including English, Justus became an invaluable member of Fry’s operation as a spy and scout. After the Vichy government expelled Fry from France, Justus worked in Grenoble, recruiting young men and women for the Underground Army. For the next four years, he would be an essential component of the Resistance, relying on his wits and skills to survive several close calls with death. Once, he found himself in a Nazi internment camp, with his next stop Auschwitz—and yet Justus found an ingenious way to escape. He two years during the war gathering intelligence, surveying German installations and troop movements on the Mediterranean. Then, after the allied invasion at Normandy in 1944, Justus became a guerrilla fighter, participating in and leading commando raids to disrupt the German retreat across France. At the end of the Second World War, Justus emigrated to America, and built a new life. For the past fifty years, he has taught literature at Bard College, shaping the inner lives of generations of students. Now he adds his own story to the library of great coming-of-age memoirs: The Art of Resistance is a powerful saga of bravery and defiance, a true-life spy thriller touched throughout by a professor’s wisdom.

Author : Keith Holz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015057617113

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Modern German Art for Thirties Paris, Prague, and London by Keith Holz Pdf

A generously illustrated account of Germany's exiled artists in Paris, Prague, and London, and their uphill battle to promote new interpretations of modern German art

Author : Jonathan Huener,Francis R. Nicosia
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781845453596

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The Arts in Nazi Germany by Jonathan Huener,Francis R. Nicosia Pdf

"Culture and the arts played a central role in the ideology and propaganda of National Socialism from the early years of the movement until the last months of the Third Reich in 1945 ... This volume's essays explore these and other aspects of the arts and cultural life under National Socialism ..."--Cover.

Author : Reinhold Heller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015021491579

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Art in Germany, 1909-1936 by Reinhold Heller Pdf

Overzicht van Duitse schilder- en tekenkunst

Author : Gregory Maertz
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783838212814

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Nostalgia for the Future: Modernism and Heterogeneity in the Visual Arts of Nazi Germany by Gregory Maertz Pdf

In the first chapter on the German military’s unlikely function as an incubator of modernist art and in the second chapter on Adolf Hitler’s advocacy for “eugenic” figurative representation embodying nostalgia for lost Aryan racial perfection and the aspiration for the future perfection of the German Volk, Maertz conclusively proves that the Nazi attack on modernism was inconsistent. In further chapters, on the appropriation of Christian iconography in constructing symbols of a Nazi racial utopia and on Baldur von Schirach’s heretical patronage of modernist art as the supreme Nazi Party authority in Vienna, Maertz reveals that sponsorship of modernist artists continued until the collapse of the regime. Also based on previously unexamined evidence, including 10,000 works of art and documents confiscated by the U.S. Army, Maertz’s final chapter reconstructs the anarchic denazification and rehabilitation of German artists during the Allied occupation, which had unforeseen consequences for the postwar art world.

Author : Camilla Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781350239401

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Jeanne Mammen by Camilla Smith Pdf

Jeanne Mammen's watercolour images of the gender-bending 'new woman' and her candid portrayals of Berlin's thriving nightlife appeared in some of the most influential magazines of the Weimar Republic and are still considered characteristic of much of the 'glitter' of that era. This book charts how, once the Nazis came into power, Mammen instead created 'degenerate' paintings and collages, translated prohibited French literature and sculpted in clay and plaster-all while hidden away in her tiny studio apartment in the heart of Berlin's fashionable west end. What was it like as a woman artist to produce modern art in Nazi Germany? Can artworks that were never exhibited in public still make valid claims to protest? Camilla Smith examines a wide range of Mammen's dissenting artworks, ranging from those created in solitude during inner emigration to her collaboration with artist cabarets after the Second World War. Smith's engaging analysis compares Mammen's popular Weimar work to her artistic activities under the radar after 1933, in order to fundamentally rethink the moral complexities of inner emigration and its visual culture. While Mammen's artistry is considered through the lens of gender politics to reveal her complex relationship with the urbanisation of her time, this book also highlights the crucial role played by a lost generation of inner émigré women artists as agents of German modernity. The examination of Mammen's life and work demonstrates the crucial role women artists played as both markers and agents of German modernity, but the double marginalisation they have nonetheless encountered as inner émigrés in recent history. It will be of interest to students of German studies, art history, literature, history, gender studies and cultural studies.

Author : Hermann Selchow
Publisher : Tredition Gmbh
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3384018214

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Art & Literature in East Germany by Hermann Selchow Pdf

Dear reader, Anyone expecting a melancholic epitaph for a bygone era in my book "Art & Literature in East Germany - Resistance Between the Lines" will be disappointed. I myself grew up in East Germany and spent half of my life there. There is nothing politically desirable about that time, and nothing of it should be repeated. The other half I spent in united Germany, and while some aspects could have been better, many were indeed better. One had the freedom to adapt or to drift through the years. That seems to be changing lately. What needs to be said sometimes becomes unspeakable. Thoughts must occasionally be rethought. Some words withdraw back between the lines and must be found there. In this context, I want to introduce you to my book - a collection of stories and history about courage, resistance, and creativity during a time of oppression and political change. "Art & Literature in East Germany - Resistance Between the Lines" is a book that captures the secret voices of the artists who lived and worked during the time of the German Democratic Republic. Their stories were often told in secret, hidden between the lines of their works and away from the eyes of censors. They may serve as examples of people who dared to think the unthinkable and speak the unspeakable, despite speech and thought prohibitions. East Germany was marked by an ideological dictatorship in which artists faced numerous challenges. Art was viewed by the party as a means of propaganda and solidifying the socialist regime. Every artistic expression was carefully monitored and controlled. However, despite these restrictive conditions, many found ways to express their ideas and criticisms by pushing the boundaries of what was allowed or subtly resisting the system. In this book, we will immerse ourselves in the world of East German art, which provides insight into the lives of artists who confronted the painful realities of everyday life with their creativity and resistance. The stories you

Author : Bernd Langer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Anti-fascist movements
ISBN : OCLC:1195050306

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Art as Resistance by Bernd Langer Pdf

"Since KuK is comprehensible only in connection with the political movement, the development of the leftist movement in Germany since 1945 is described. The origins as well as the actions of the autonomist movement are focused on. In particular, the nature of autonomist anti-fascism is explained"--Back cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804779715

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Bronzes to Bullets by Anonim Pdf

This text tells the story of French statues and monuments that were melted down and shipped to Nazi munitions factories during the Second World War.

Author : Jonathan Petropoulos
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300197471

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Artists Under Hitler by Jonathan Petropoulos Pdf

'Artists Under Hitler' closely examines cases of artists who failed in their attempts to find accommodation in the Nazi regime as well as others whose desire for official acceptance was realised. They illuminate the complex cultural history of this period and provide haunting portraits of people facing excruciating choices and grave moral questions.

Author : Bernd Langer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1620490633

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Art As Resistance by Bernd Langer Pdf

Author : Lucy Wasensteiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351004121

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The Twentieth Century German Art Exhibition by Lucy Wasensteiner Pdf

This book represents the first study dedicated to Twentieth Century German Art, the 1938 London exhibition that was the largest international response to the cultural policies of National Socialist Germany and the infamous Munich exhibition Degenerate Art. Provenance research into the catalogued exhibits has enabled a full reconstruction of the show for the first time: its contents and form, its contributors and their motivations, and its impact both in Britain and internationally. Presenting the research via six case-study exhibits, the book sheds new light on the exhibition and reveals it as one of the largest émigré projects of the period, which drew contributions from scores of German émigré collectors, dealers, art critics, and from the ‘degenerate’ artists themselves. The book explores the show’s potency as an anti-Nazi statement, which prompted a direct reaction from Hitler himself.

Author : German Resistance Memorial Centre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1420496130

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German Resistance Memorial Centre by German Resistance Memorial Centre Pdf