Objects As History In Twentieth Century German Art

Author : Peter Chametzky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art and history
ISBN : 9780520260429

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Objects as History in Twentieth-century German Art by Peter Chametzky Pdf

This book provides an overview of twentieth-century German art, focusing on some of the period's key works. In Peter Chametzky's innovative approach, these works become representatives rather than representations of twentieth-century history. Chametzky draws on both scholarly and popular sources to demonstrate how the works (and in some cases, the artists themselves) interacted with, and even enacted, historical events, processes, and ideas.--[book jacket].

Author : Lucy Wasensteiner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Deborah Ascher Barnstone,Elizabeth Otto
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501344879

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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 : Barbara McCloskey
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520281943

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The Exile of George Grosz by Barbara McCloskey Pdf

The Exile of George Grosz examines the life and work of George Grosz after he fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and sought to re-establish his artistic career under changed circumstances in New York. It situates GroszÕs American production specifically within the cultural politics of German exile in the United States during World War II and the Cold War. Basing her study on extensive archival research and using theories of exile, migrancy, and cosmopolitanism, McCloskey explores how GroszÕs art illuminates the changing cultural politics of exile. She also foregrounds the terms on which German exile helped to define both the limits and possibilities of American visions of a one world order under U.S. leadership that emerged during this period. This book presents GroszÕs work in relation to that of other prominent figures of the German emigration, including Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht, as the exile community agonized over its measure of responsibility for the Nazi atrocity German culture had become and debated what GermanyÕs postwar future should be. Important too at this time were GroszÕs interactions with the American art world. His historical allegories, self-portraits, and other works are analyzed as confrontational responses to the New York art worldÕs consolidating consensus around Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism during and after World War II. This nuanced study recounts the controversial repatriation of GroszÕs work, and the exile culture of which it was a part, to a German nation perilously divided between East and West in the Cold War.

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),Werner Haftmann,William Slattery Lieberman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Art, German
ISBN : OCLC:978122307

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German Art of the Twentieth Century by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.),Werner Haftmann,William Slattery Lieberman Pdf

Author : Frederic J. Schwartz
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 030010829X

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Blind Spots by Frederic J. Schwartz Pdf

In four extended case studies, the book traces the way in which central concepts of the aesthetics later termed "Frankfurt School" were deeply rooted in contemporary developments in painting, photography, architecture and films as well as psychology, advertising and the discipline of art history as it was practised by figures such as Heinrich Wolfflin, Erwin Panofsky, Wilhelm Pinder and Hans Sedlmayr. By studying the emergence and importance of the concepts of 'fashion', 'distraction', 'non-simultaneity' and 'mimesis' in the work of the critical theorists, the book traces the shifting intersection between the history of art and the Frankfurt School and seeks to uncover its specific logic.

Author : Martha Buskirk
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781441187239

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Creative Enterprise by Martha Buskirk Pdf

In the face of unparalleled growth and a truly global audience, the popularity of contemporary art has clearly become a double-edged affair. Today, an unprecedented number of museums, galleries, biennial-style exhibitions, and art fairs display new work in all its variety, while art schools continue to inject fresh talent onto the scene at an accelerated rate. In the process, however, contemporary art has become deeply embedded not only in an expanding art industry, but also the larger cultures of fashion and entertainment. Buskirk argues that understanding the dynamics of art itself cannot be separated from the business of presenting art to the public. As strategies of institutional critique have given way to various forms of collaboration or accommodation, both art and museum conventions have been profoundly altered by their ongoing relationship. The escalating market for contemporary art is another driving force. Even as art remains an idealized activity, it is also understood as a profession, and in increasingly obvious ways a business, particularly as practiced by star artists who preside over branded art product lines.

Author : Paul Betts
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520941359

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The Authority of Everyday Objects by Paul Betts Pdf

From the Werkbund to the Bauhaus to Braun, from furniture to automobiles to consumer appliances, twentieth-century industrial design is closely associated with Germany. In this pathbreaking study, Paul Betts brings to light the crucial role that design played in building a progressive West German industrial culture atop the charred remains of the past. The Authority of Everyday Objects details how the postwar period gave rise to a new design culture comprising a sprawling network of diverse interest groups—including the state and industry, architects and designers, consumer groups and museums, as well as publicists and women's organizations—who all identified industrial design as a vital means of economic recovery, social reform, and even moral regeneration. These cultural battles took on heightened importance precisely because the stakes were nothing less than the very shape and significance of West German domestic modernity. Betts tells the rich and far-reaching story of how and why commodity aesthetics became a focal point for fashioning a certain West German cultural identity. This book is situated at the very crossroads of German industry and aesthetics, Cold War politics and international modernism, institutional life and visual culture.

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758179308

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German Art of the Twentieth Century by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Staff Pdf

Author : Helen Glaister
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000644272

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Chinese Art Objects, Collecting, and Interior Design in Twentieth-Century Britain by Helen Glaister Pdf

This book explores the relationship between collecting Chinese ceramics, interior design and display in Britain through the eyes of collectors, designers and tastemakers during the years leading to, during and following the Second World War. The Ionides Collection of European style Chinese export porcelain forms the nucleus of this study – defined by its design hybridity – offering insights into the agency of Chinese porcelain in diverse contexts, from seventeenth-century Batavia to twentieth-century Britain, raising questions about notions of Chineseness, Britishness, and identity politics across time and space. Through the biographies of the collectors, this book highlights the role of collecting Chinese art objects, particularly porcelain, in the construction of individual and group identities. Social networks linking the Ionides to agents and dealers, auctioneers, and museum specialists bring into focus the dynamics of collecting during this period, the taste of the Ionides and their self-fashioning as collectors. The book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of art history, history of collections, interior design, Chinese studies, and material culture studies.

Author : Gail Finney
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 0253347181

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Visual Culture in Twentieth-century Germany by Gail Finney Pdf

'Visual Culture in Twentieth-Century Germany' explores a wide spectrum of visual media in 20th century Germany in their critical and social contexts. Contributors examine film, photography, cabaret performances, advertising, architecture, painting, dance, television, and cartography.

Author : Laurie Wilkie,John Chenoweth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350226715

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A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age by Laurie Wilkie,John Chenoweth Pdf

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions - from plastics to the digital to biotechnology - have created unprecedented scales of disruption, shifting and blurring the categories and meanings of the object. If the 20th century demonstrated that humans can be treated like things whilst things can become ever more human, where will the 21st century take us? The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds. Laurie A. Wilkie is Professor at the University of California-Berkeley, USA. John M. Chenoweth, is Associate Professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA. Volume 6 in the Cultural History of Objects set. General Editors: Dan Hicks and William Whyte

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271047904

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Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting by Anonim Pdf

Author : Werner Haftmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Escultura alemana - Siglo xx
ISBN : OCLC:1005894883

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German art of the twentieth century by Werner Haftmann Pdf

Author : OliverA.I. Botar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351573733

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Biocentrism and Modernism by OliverA.I. Botar Pdf

Examining the complex intersections between art and scientific approaches to the natural world, Biocentrism and Modernism reveals another side to the development of Modernism. While many historians have framed this movement as being mechanistic and "against" nature, the essays in this collection illuminate the role that nature-centric ideologies played in late-nineteenth to mid-twentieth-century Modernism. The essays in Biocentrism and Modernism contend that it is no accident that Modernism arose at the same time as the field of modern biology. From nineteenth-century discoveries, to the emergence of the current environmentalist movement during the 1960s, artists, architects, and urban planners have responded to currents in the scientific world. Sections of the volume treat both philosophic worldviews and their applications in theory, historiography, and urban design. This collection also features specific case studies of individual artists, including Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Jackson Pollock.