Art Of Two Germanys

Author : Stephanie Barron
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810984042
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art of Two Germanys written by Stephanie Barron and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive overview of postwar German art examines the work of artists in both East and West Germany to reveal how they depicted the diverse political realities of the era through both abstraction and realism, with profiles of Georg Baselitz, Willi Baumeister, Joseph Beuys, Hannah Hch, Gerhard Richter, and many others.

Author : Stephanie Barron
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 : 9780810976474
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art of Two Germanys - Cold War Cultures written by Stephanie Barron and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Jan. 25-Apr. 19, 2009, at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, May 23-Sept. 6, 2009 and the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Oct. 3-Jan. 10, 2010.

Author : Sara Blaylock
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262368803
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parallel Public written by Sara Blaylock and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How East German artists made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life. Experimental artists in the final years of the German Democratic Republic did not practice their art in the shadows, on the margins, hiding away from the Stasi’s prying eyes. In fact, as Sara Blaylock shows, many cultivated a critical influence over the very bureaucracies meant to keep them in line, undermining state authority through forthright rather than covert projects. In Parallel Public, Blaylock describes how some East German artists made their country’s experimental art scene a form of (counter) public life, creating an alternative to the crumbling collective underpinnings of the state. Blaylock examines the work of artists who used body-based practices—including performance, film, and photography—to create new vocabularies of representation, sharing their projects through independent networks of dissemination and display. From the collective films and fashion shows of Erfurt's Women Artists Group, which fused art with feminist political action, to Gino Hahnemann, the queer filmmaker and poet who set nudes alight in city parks, these creators were as bold in their ventures as they were indifferent to state power. Parallel Public is the first work of its kind on experimental art in East Germany to be written in English. Blaylock draws on extensive interviews with artists, art historians, and organizers; artist-made publications; official reports from the Union of Fine Artists; and Stasi surveillance records. As she recounts the role culture played in the GDR’s rapid decline, she reveals East German artists as dissenters and witnesses, citizens and agents, their work both antidote to and diagnosis of a weakening state.

Author : Gerhard Richter
Publisher : Dumont
ISBN 13 : 9783832192815
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art of two Germanys written by Gerhard Richter and published by Dumont. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amazingly, Gerhard Richter's only film Volker Bradke from 1966 has remained largely unknown. Hubertus Butin's essay and the enclosed DVD comprehensively present this artwork for the first time. Richter's film depiction of a then well-known figure from the Düsseldorf scene, Volker Bradke, oscillates between heroism and irony. The film is published in this book on DVD and explains its original context: The piece was presented in 1966 with a painting and now lost photographs at the legendary Schmela Gallery in Dusseldorf. Based on further works, Hubertus Butin examines Richter's fundamental artistic principle of the unfocussed. English and German text.

Author : Jérôme Bazin
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633866804
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art beyond Borders written by Jérôme Bazin and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe’s avant-garde in a most remarkable way. Despite the Iron Curtain and national and political borders there existed a constant flow of artists, artworks, artistic ideas and practices. The geographic borders of these exchanges have yet to be clearly defined. How were networks, centers, peripheries (local, national and international), scales, and distances constructed? How did (neo)avant-garde tendencies relate with officially sanctioned socialist realism? The literature on the art of Eastern Europe provides a great deal of factual knowledge about a vast cultural space, but mostly through the prism of stereotypes and national preoccupations. By discussing artworks, studying the writings on art, observing artistic evolution and artists’ strategies, as well as the influence of political authorities, art dealers and art critics, the essays in Art beyond Borders compose a transnational history of arts in the Soviet satellite countries in the post war period.

Author : Stephanie Barron
Publisher : Prestel
ISBN 13 : 9783791354316
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Objectivity written by Stephanie Barron and published by Prestel. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Olaf Peters
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9783791353678
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Degenerate Art written by Olaf Peters and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book accompanies the first major museum exhibition devoted to a reconstruction of the infamous Nazi display of modern art since the presentation originated by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1991. The book contains reflections on the genesis and evolution of the term "degenerate art" and details of the National Socialist policy on art. Art works from the exhibition Degenerate Art are compared to works of art from The Great German Art Exhibition, which was held at the same time and displayed the works of officially approved artists. The book also presents the after-effects of the attack on modernism that are felt even today.

Author : Stephanie Barron
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9780810936539
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Degenerate Art written by Stephanie Barron and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 1991-04-15 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the reconstructed exhibit of degenerate art censored by the Nazis in 1937

Author : Eckhart Gillen
Publisher : Dumont
ISBN 13 : 9780300073249
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book German Art from Beckmann to Richter written by Eckhart Gillen and published by Dumont. This book was released on 1997 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 brought the division of Germany to an end. This book -- a survey of German art between 1945 and 1990 -- compares how art mirrored the different political circumstances in the two German states during this period. It reveals for the first time how artists from East and West Germany responded to the Nazi dictatorship, the Holocaust and the world war, and various political developments, showing that the dividing line between East and West was much less strict than has been imagined. Authorities on German art discuss major works by such artists as Max Beckmann, Max Ernst, Otto Dix, Josef Albers, Georg Baselitz, Eva Hesse, Gerhard Richter, Josef Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Hanne Darboven, and others. The book also includes biographies of the artists. This handsome book is the catalogue for the exhibition "Deutschlandbilder" to be held at the 47 Berliner Festwochen from September 1997 until January 1998.

Author : Neil MacGregor
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101875674
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germany written by Neil MacGregor and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-09-29 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the past 140 years, Germany has been the central power in continental europe. Twenty-five years ago a new German state came into being. How much do we really understand this new Germany, and how do its people understand themselves? Neil MacGregor argues that, uniquely for any European country, no coherent, overarching narrative of Germany's history can be constructed, for in Germany both geography and history have always been unstable. Its frontiers have constantly shifted. Königsberg, home to the greatest German philosopher, Immanuel Kant, is now Kaliningrad, Russia; Strasbourg, in whose cathedral Wolfgang von Geothe, Germany's greatest writer, discovered the distinctiveness of his country's art and history, now lies within the borders of France. For most of the five hundred years covered by this book Germany has been composed of many separate political units, each with a distinct history. And any comfortable national story Germans might have told themselves before 1914 was destroyed by the events of the following thirty years. German history may be inherently fragmented, but it contains a large number of widely shared memories, awarenesses, and experiences; examining some of these is the purpose of this book. MacGregor chooses objects and ideas, people and places that still resonate in the new Germany—porcelain from Dresden and rubble from its ruins, Bauhaus design and the German sausage, the crown of Charlemagne and the gates of Buchenwald—to show us something of its collective imagination. There has never been a book about Germany quite like it.