Otto Dix and the First World War

Michael MacKenzie

• Hardcover | Engels | German Visual Culture | nr. 6
• 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 ... Lees meer

A Medievalist's Gaze

Galit Noga-Banai

• Hardcover | Engels | German Visual Culture | nr. 10
• This study offers an unconventional reading of modern and postmodern German memorials from a medievalist perspective. Including but not limited to mem... Lees meer

Sites of Interchange

• Hardcover | Engels | German Visual Culture | nr. 8
• Early twentieth-century Germany and Britain may have seemed politically very different, yet there was a lively interchange between these two countries... Lees meer

Spectacle

• Hardcover | Engels | German Visual Culture | nr. 2
• How does the visual nature of spectacle destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic convention and celebrate cultural creativity? This interdiscipl... Lees meer

The Art of War

• Hardcover | Engels | German Visual Culture | nr. 5
• War and trauma are fundamental human experiences and central to German history, especially in the twentieth century. This volume considers the multiva... Lees meer

The Dada Archivist

Stina Barchan

• Hardcover | Engels | German Visual Culture | nr. 13
• «With astuteness and feeling, Stina Barchan captures the wonderful friendship between Hannah Höch and Kurt Schwitters and their artistic affinities. S... Lees meer

Compressed Utterances

• Hardcover | Engels | German Visual Culture | nr. 12
• The collage form is one of the best expressive forms to be taken up and experimented with by German artists since 1912. This volume of essays examines... Lees meer

Otto Dix and Weimar Media Culture

Anne Reimers

• Hardcover | Engels | German Visual Culture | nr. 11
• Otto Dix (1891-1969) was a leading figure of the Neue Sachlichkeit, or New Objectivity, movement in painting in 1920s Germany. This groundbreaking stu... Lees meer

Representations of German Identity

• Hardcover | Engels | German Visual Culture | nr. 1
• Who is «German»? What defines «Germanness»? These questions about national identity have continued to confound both Germans and foreign observers in l... Lees meer

The Doppelgaenger

• Hardcover | Engels | German Visual Culture | nr. 3
• The Doppelgänger - the double, twin, mirror image or alter ego of someone else - is a universal theme that has been prevalent in German culture since ... Lees meer

Disorders at the Borders

Matt Wates

• Hardcover | Engels | German Visual Culture | nr. 9
• Although Anselm Kiefer's work is routinely compared with the Gesamtkunstwerk , the 'total work of art' pioneered by Richard Wagner, this book investig... Lees meer

Becoming TransGerman

• Hardcover | Engels | German Visual Culture | nr. 7
• This book is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary collection of essays by some of today's most forward-thinking scholars. The contributors explore the wa... Lees meer

Representations of German Identity

• Paperback | Engels | German Visual Culture | nr. 1
• This volume examines the multi-faceted nature of German identity through the lens of myriad forms of visual representation from the Middle Ages to the... Lees meer

Emergency Noises

Irene Noy

• Hardcover | Engels | German Visual Culture | nr. 4
• Art history traditionally concentrates on the visual, often at the expense of sound art. This book is about recent attempts by artists trained in (Wes... Lees meer