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Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936 - Couverture rigide

Murray, Ann

 
9781350354623: Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936

Synopsis

Examines the war pictures, both paintings and graphic work, of Otto Dix produced during the years 1914-1936. Places the work within the broader visual culture of the war and how it was understood as war memory through its critical reception in key exhibitions of the period.

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À propos de l'auteur

Ann Murray is an independent scholar from Ireland. She is the editor of Constructing the Memory of War in Visual Culture since 1914: The Eye on War (2018).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The harsh realities of wartime and Weimar-era Germany called for a new kind of art. Dada, followed by Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), confronted social and political issues in new and bold ways. This book highlights how Otto Dix (1891-1969) - one of the leading artists connected to these artistic movements - employed these new approaches to reveal the injustices of wartime and post-World War I Germany. Having spent 38 months on the frontline, his pictures revealed the brutalities of the conflict and h

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