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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Rochester, New York :
Camden House,
2018.
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| Collection: | Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- 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.