World War 1 and the Weimar Artists
Author : Matthias Eberle
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Matthias Eberle
Publisher :
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 38,98 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Stephanie Barron
Publisher : Prestel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,83 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 9783791354316
Between the end of World War I and the Nazi assumption of power, Germany's Weimar Republic (1919-1933) functioned as a thriving laboratory of art and culture. As the country experienced unprecedented and often tumultuous social, economic and political upheaval, many artists rejected Expressionism in favour of a new realism to capture this emerging society. Dubbed Neue Sachlichkeit - New Objectivity - its adherents turned a cold eye on the new Germany: its desperate prostitutes and crippled war veterans, its alienated urban landscapes, its decadent underworld where anything was available for a price. Showcasing 150 works by more than 50 artists, this book reflects the full diversity and strategies of this art form. Organised around five thematic sections, it mixes photography, works on paper and painting to bring them into a visual dialogue. Artists such as Otto Dix, George Grosz and Max Beckmann are included alongside figures such as Christian Schad, Alexander Kanoldt, Georg Schrimpf, August Sander, Lotte Jacobi and Aenne Biermann. Also included are numerous essays that examine the politics of New Objectivity and its legacy, the relation of this new realism to international art movements of the time; the context of gender roles and sexuality; and the influence of new technology and consumer goods. Published in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. AUTHOR: Stephanie Barron is a Senior Curator and heads the Modern Art department at the Los Angeles Contemporary Museum of Art. Sabine Eckmann is the William T. Kemper Director and Chief Curator of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri. 300 colour illustrations
Author : Michael Mackenzie
Publisher : German Visual Culture
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,83 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 9783034317238
Otto Dix fought in the First World War for four years before becoming one of the most important artists of the Weimar era. This book takes Dix's very public, monumental works out of the isolation of the artist's studio and returns them to a context of public memorials, mass media depictions, and the communal search for meaning in the war.
Author : John Willett
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,20 MB
Release : 1996-08-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780306807244
The period between the end of World War I and Hitler's ascension to power witnessed an unprecedented cultural explosion that embraced the whole of Europe but was, above all, centered in Germany. Germany housed architect Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus movement; playwrights Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator; artists Hans Richter, George Grosz, John Heartfield, and Hannah Hoch; composers Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schonberg, and Kurt Weill; and dozens of others. In Art and Politics in the Weimar Period , John Willett provides a brilliant explanation of the aesthetic and political currents which made Germany the focal point of a new, down-to-earth, socially committed cultural movement that drew a significant measure of inspiration from revolutionary Russia, left-wing social thought, American technology, and the devastating experience of war.
Author : Eric D. Weitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 37,18 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0691183058
"Weimar Centennial edition with a new preface by the author."--Title page.
Author : Matthias Eberle
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Page : 134 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 1985
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Author : Bernadette Kester
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9789053565988
How was Germany's experience of World War I depicted in film during the following years? Drawing on analysis of the films of the Weimar era--documentaries and feature films addressing the war's causes, life at the front, war at sea, and the home front--Bernadette Kester sketches out the historical context, including reviews and censors' reports, in which these films were made and viewed, and offers much insight into how Germans collectively perceived World War I during its aftermath and beyond.
Author : Marsha Meskimmon
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN :
Examination of the role of women as producers and patrons of art in Germany after the First world war, while also considering the problematic area of women as subject and object in representation. Art forms discussed are the visual arts, photography, dance and film.
Author : Max Arthur
Publisher : Cassell Illustrated
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 26,30 MB
Release : 2014-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844037995
Charting the Allies' entry into warfare in 1914, Max Arthur tells the story in words and pictures of the new conscripted army's life through the five years of slaughter and suffering. He brilliantly conveys not only the heroism, but also the universal horror, futility, humour and boredom of warfare. From the front-line troops and the daily dice with death, to the support lines, communications, enlistment, training and propaganda, every aspect of the soldier's life is covered in this brilliant collection of images and interviews that brings the Great War to life once more.
Author : Sabine Rewald
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 24,75 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Neue Sachlichkeit (Art)
ISBN : 1588392007
In the 1920s Germany was in the grip of social and political turmoil: its citizens were disillusioned by defeat in World War I, the failure of revolution, the disintegration of their social system, and inflation of rampant proportions. Curiously, as this important book shows, these years of upheaval were also a time of creative ferment and innovative accomplishment in literature, theater, film, and art. Glitter and Doom is the first publication to focus exclusively on portraits dating from the short-lived Weimar Republic. It features forty paintings and sixty drawings by key artists, including Otto Dix, Max Beckmann, and George Grosz. Their works epitomize Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), in particular the branch of that new form of realism called Verism, which took as its subject contemporary phenomena such as war, social problems, and moral decay. Subjects of their incisive portraits are the artists' own contemporaries: actors, poets, prostitutes, and profiteers, as well as doctors, lawyers, businessmen, and other respectable citizens. The accompanying texts reveal how these portraits hold up a mirror to the glittering, vital, doomed society that was obliterated when Hitler came to power.