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Objects as history in twentieth-century German art : Beckmann to Beuys / Peter Chametzky.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: N72.H58 C47 2010

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    Format
    Book
    Author/Creator
    Chametzky, Peter, 1958-
    Published
    Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
    ©2010
    Locale
    Germany
    Contents
    Introduction. Art objects as history
    Titanic sinks, departure arrives. Max Beckmann's melodramatic role in the fall of history painting and rise of the historical object
    Lost and found Dada objects and subjects. George Grosz, Hannah Höch, and German Jewish identity
    Objects of interpretation. Grosz's Germany: a winter's tale
    Absender: ich. Willi Baumeister's anti-Nazi works as objects of (s)exchange
    Sculpture and crime. Arno Breker
    From muscle men to fatty remains. Joseph Beuys's sculptural objects beyond objecthood
    Conclusion. Beyond Beuys: Gerhard Richter's choice.
    Notes
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Introduction. Art objects as history -- Titanic sinks, departure arrives. Max Beckmann's melodramatic role in the fall of history painting and rise of the historical object -- Lost and found Dada objects and subjects. George Grosz, Hannah Höch, and German Jewish identity -- Objects of interpretation. Grosz's Germany: a winter's tale -- Absender: ich. Willi Baumeister's anti-Nazi works as objects of (s)exchange -- Sculpture and crime. Arno Breker -- From muscle men to fatty remains. Joseph Beuys's sculptural objects beyond objecthood -- Conclusion. Beyond Beuys: Gerhard Richter's choice.

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    Language
    English
    ISBN
    9780520260429
    0520260422
    Physical Description
    xi, 286 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

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