Objects as History in Twentieth-Century German Art : Beckmann to Beuys
This book provides a stimulating overview of twentieth-century German art, focusing on some of the period's key works by Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Hannah Höch, Willi Baumeister, Arno Breker, Joseph Beuys, and Gerhard Richter. In Peter Chametzky's innovative approach, these works become representatives rather than representations of twentieth-century history. That is, the art here does not simply illustrate an argument, the art is the argument. Chametzky draws on both scholarly and popular sources to demonstrate how the works (and in some cases, the artists themselves) interacted with, and ev
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9780520260429, 9781282771772, 9780520947481, 0520947487, 0520260422, 1282771779
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Art Objects as History; 1 Titanic Sinks, Departure Arrives: Max Beckmann's Melodramatic Role in the Fall of History Painting and Rise of the Historical Object; 2 Lost and Found Dada Objects and Subjects: George Grosz, Hannah Höch, and German Jewish Identity; 3 Objects of Interpretation; 4 Absender: ich: Willi Baumeister's Anti-Nazi Works as Objects of (S)exchange; 5 Sculpture and Crime: Arno Breker; 6 From Muscle Men to Fatty Remains: Joseph Beuys's Sculptural Objects Beyond Objecthood; Conclusion: Beyond Beuys: Gerhard Richter's Choice; Notes. BibliographyList of Illustrations; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z