- Format
- Book
- Published
- New York ; London : Abrams ; Los Angeles : In association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009
- Locale
- Germany (West)
Germany (East)
- Contents
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Foreword / Michael Govan
Blurred boundaries: the art of two Germanys between myth and history / Stephanie Barron
Historicizing postwar German art / Sabine Eckmann
Nationalizing aesthetics: revivals and rebuttals. Ruptures and continuities: modern German art in between the Third Reich and the Cold War / Sabine Eckmann ; Legacy of critical realism in East and West / Ursula Peters and Roland Prügel ; Expressionism and the two Germanys / Karen Lang
Internationalization of German art. Dialectic at a standstill: East German socialist realism in the Stalin era / Barbara McCloskey ; Abstraction as international language / Susanne Leeb ; Leftist artist: visual art and its politics in postwar Germany / Diedrich Diederichsen
Art, technologies, and the avant-garde. Art of a miracle: toward a history of German Pop, 1955-72 / Christine Mehring ; Symbolic revolts in the "workers' and peasants' state": countercultural art programs in the GDR and the return of modern art / Paul Kaiser ; Photography as contemporary document: comments on the conceptions of the documentary in Germany after 1945 / Astrid Ihle ; Pause>rewind>play: video art in Cold War Germany / Lutz Koepnick
Trauma, violence, and memory. Figures of memory in the course of time / Andreas Huyssen ; Art of barbarism and suffering / Richard Langston ; Repression and representation: the RAF in German postwar art / Peter Weibel ; RAF and the phantom of terrorism in West Germany / Svea Bräunert
Scenes from the theater of the Cold War of the arts / Eckhart Gillen
Artists and artworks in the exhibition. Checklist of the exhibition
Chronology: two Germanys, 1945-90.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Barron, Stephanie, 1950-
Eckmann, Sabine (Sabine M.)
Gillen, Eckhart, 1947-
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg.
Deutsches Historisches Museum.
- Notes
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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.
Foreword / Michael Govan -- Blurred boundaries: the art of two Germanys between myth and history / Stephanie Barron -- Historicizing postwar German art / Sabine Eckmann -- Nationalizing aesthetics: revivals and rebuttals. Ruptures and continuities: modern German art in between the Third Reich and the Cold War / Sabine Eckmann ; Legacy of critical realism in East and West / Ursula Peters and Roland Prügel ; Expressionism and the two Germanys / Karen Lang -- Internationalization of German art. Dialectic at a standstill: East German socialist realism in the Stalin era / Barbara McCloskey ; Abstraction as international language / Susanne Leeb ; Leftist artist: visual art and its politics in postwar Germany / Diedrich Diederichsen -- Art, technologies, and the avant-garde. Art of a miracle: toward a history of German Pop, 1955-72 / Christine Mehring ; Symbolic revolts in the "workers' and peasants' state": countercultural art programs in the GDR and the return of modern art / Paul Kaiser ; Photography as contemporary document: comments on the conceptions of the documentary in Germany after 1945 / Astrid Ihle ; Pause>rewind>play: video art in Cold War Germany / Lutz Koepnick -- Trauma, violence, and memory. Figures of memory in the course of time / Andreas Huyssen ; Art of barbarism and suffering / Richard Langston ; Repression and representation: the RAF in German postwar art / Peter Weibel ; RAF and the phantom of terrorism in West Germany / Svea Bräunert -- Scenes from the theater of the Cold War of the arts / Eckhart Gillen -- Artists and artworks in the exhibition. Checklist of the exhibition -- Chronology: two Germanys, 1945-90.
