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

Publication | Library Call Number: N72.H58 C47 2010

Format: Book
Author/Creator: Chametzky, Peter, 1958-
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010
Includes bibliographical references and index
Language: English

Physical Description: xi, 286 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm
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.
ISBN: 9780520260429
0520260422 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Art and history--Germany.
Art, German--20th century.
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