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

Murray, Ann

 
9781350354661: Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 135035466X ISBN 13 : 9781350354661
Editeur : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025

Synopsis

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 helped establish him 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. It pulls together a number of key approaches and texts: contemporary reviews, contemporary cultural productions (such as novels and cartoons), and theoretical and historical approaches from history, memory studies and art history.

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.

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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).

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Éditeur
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
135035466X
ISBN 13 
9781350354661
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
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ISBN 10 :  1350354627 ISBN 13 :  9781350354623
Editeur : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023
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