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Art and resistance in Germany /

In light of the recent rise of right-wing populism in numerous political contexts and in the face of resurgent nationalism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, and demagoguery, this book investigates how historical and contemporary cultural producers have sought to resist, confront, confound, mock, or cal...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Barnstone, Deborah Ascher (Editor), Otto, Elizabeth, 1970- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019
Series:Visual cultures and German contexts.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • How art resists / Deborah Ascher Barnstone and Elizabeth Otto
  • Cut with the kitchen knife : visualizing politics in Berlin Dada / Patrizia McBride
  • Walter Gropius's Dammerstock and the possibilities of an architectural resistance / Kevin Berry
  • Authority and ambiguity: three sculptors in National Socialist Germany / Nina Lübbren
  • Teach your children well: Hermynia zur Mühle, George Grosz, and the art of radical pedagogy in Germany between the world wars / Barbara McCloskey
  • Parting shots: Ella Bergmann-Michel's Wahlkampf 1932 (Letzte Wahl) / Jennifer Kapczynski
  • "War feeds its people better": Mother Courage and the limits of revolutionary theater / Noah Soltau
  • Montage as meme: learning from the radical Avant-Gardes / Sabine Kriebel
  • On the possibility of resistance in Two Silverpoints by Otto Dix / James van Dyke
  • A whisper rather than a shout: Ursula Wilms and Heinz Hallmann's Topography of Terror / Kathleen James-Chakraborty
  • From anti-Nazi postcards to anti-Trump social media: laughter as resistance, opposition, or cold comfort? / Peter Chametzky
  • Opera as resistance: the Little March Girl and the Terrorist in Helmut Lachenmann's Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern / Joy Calico
  • Montage as a form of aesthetic resistance today: Marcel Odenbach and Thomas Hirschhorn / Verena Krieger