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Bernhard Heisig and the fight for modern art in East Germany /

East German studies today is thriving. Scholars have shown East Germany to be a complex society where culture played an important, if contested, role in the making of the socialist person. In English-language scholarship, however, the visual arts-and especially painting-have been largely ignored, th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Eisman, April A., 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2018.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Why Heisig matters
  • From the Nazi past to the Cold War present
  • Art for an educated nation
  • Against the wall : murals, modern art, and controversy
  • The contentious emergence of the "Leipzig school"
  • Portraying workers and revolutionaries
  • Conclusion : the quintessential German artist.