Format:
1 online resource (289 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781501344886
Series Statement:
Visual Cultures and German Contexts Series
Note:
Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: Welcome to the Resistance! -- 1 How Art Resists -- Resistance -- What Can Art Do? -- Art that Alters Worldview -- Art that Inspires Political Action -- Art that Alters Symbols' Meaning -- Art as Resistance -- Conclusion -- Part I Art That Alters Worldviews -- 2 Cut with the Kitchen Knife: Visualizing Politics in Berlin Dada -- Political Resistance in Berlin Dada: Communism, Anarchism, Vitalism -- Cut with the Kitchen Knife: Montage and the Sociology of the Querschnitt -- Visualizing Resistance: Political Revolution or Vitalist Renewal? -- Women's Liberation and the Blindspot of Dada's Politics -- 3 Walter Gropius's Dammerstock and the Possibilities of an Architectural Resistance -- The Setting of Dammerstock: Rationalization and Social Housing -- The Ambition of Dammerstock: Rationalization as Resistance -- The Failure of Dammerstock: "Help, I'm Being Made to Dwell!" -- The Possibilities of an Architectural Resistance -- 4 Authority and Ambiguity: Three Sculptors in National Socialist Germany -- Oda Schottmüller and the Consequences of Political Resistance -- Hanna Cauer and the Consequences of Ideological Maneuvering -- Milly Steger and the Diversity of Response -- Sculpture and Authority -- Part II Art That Inspires Action -- 5 Teach Your Children Well: Hermynia Zur Mühlen, George Grosz, and the Art of Radical Pedagogy in Germany between the World Wars1 -- 6 Parting Shots: Ella Bergmann-Michel's Wahlkampf 1932 (Letzte Wahl) -- 7 "War Feeds its People Better": Mother Courage and the Limits of Revolutionary Theater -- Speak Truth to Power: Theater as an Alternative to the Spectacle of Terrorism -- Building the Bomb: Theater as Training Ground for Political Action -- The Big Fizzle: Theater as a Vehicle of Celebrity
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Part III Art That Critiques Symbols -- 8 Montage as Meme: Learning from the Radical Avant-Gardes -- 9 On the Possibility of Resistance in Two Silverpoints by Otto Dix -- Otto Dix, 1933-5 -- Silverpoint and German Art -- Resonant Drawings -- The Reality of Randegg -- 10 A Whisper Rather than a Shout: Ursula Wilms and Heinz Hallmann's Topography of Terror -- Creating a Memorial in the Context of the International Building Exhibition -- The Wilms and Hallmann Design -- The Specificity of the Urban Context -- Conclusion -- Part IV Art That is Created in Acts of Resistance -- 11 From Anti-Nazi Postcards to Anti-Trump Social Media: Laughter as Resistance, Opposition, or Cold Comfort? -- 12 Opera as Resistance: The Little Match Girl and the Terrorist in Helmut Lachenmann's Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern -- Opera as Resistance -- Lachenmann's Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern -- A Typology of Resistance -- 13 Montage as a Form of Resistant Aesthetics Today: Marcel Odenbach and Thomas Hirschhorn -- The Bipolar Image -- Dialectical Montage -- Confrontation or Coexistence -- Dialectic at a Standstill -- List of Contributors -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Ascher Barnstone, Deborah Art and Resistance in Germany New York : Bloomsbury Publishing USA,c2018 ISBN 9781501344862
Language:
English
Keywords:
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