UID:
edocfu_9961448812002883
Format:
xix, 235p. ;
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ill. (some col), map.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
1-350-06717-2
,
1-350-06715-6
,
1-350-06716-4
Content:
"This history of the former German Democratic Republic's public murals reveals a barely known but visually and theoretically rich cultural legacy. This book traces the formal, functional and theoretical changes of the visual arts in the GDR's urban spaces. It shows how art, craft, design and architecture made up the terrain of a sustained struggle between practitioners and political leaders"--
Note:
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Royal College of Art, 2014, under the title: Visual arts in the urban environment in the German Democratic Republic.
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List of Figures -- List of Plates -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Glossary and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part One: Reconstruction, Art and Ornament (1945 to 1963) -- 1. Modernism, Realism and Muralism - the Struggle for Art in Post-fascist Germany -- 2. The Synthesis of Art and Architecture During the Transition to Industrialized Building -- Part Two: Developing a Realist Modernism (1959 to 1973) -- 3. Reconceptualizing the Place of Art in the System-built Environment -- 4. New Socialist Landscapes and the Building of Halle-Neustadt -- 5. Innovations in Socialist Public Art in Halle-Neustadt -- PART III: From the Monumental to the Unreal (1973-1990) -- 6. A Space of Pure Possibility: The X. Weltfestspiele and its Impact on Public Art -- 7. 'Ultimately, Ordinary People Want to Have a Bit of Kitsch': How Socialist Realism Looked Unreal -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- List of Interviewees -- Index.
,
Also published in print.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-350-42802-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-350-06714-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781350067172
