Imaging the scenes of war : aesthetic crossovers in American visual culture /

"In American visual culture, the 1930s and 1940s were a key transitional period shaped by the era of modernism and the global confrontation of World War II. Christof Decker demonstrates that the war and its iconography of destruction challenged visual artists to find new ways of representing it...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Decker, Christof (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2022]
Collection:American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 38.
Sujets:
1939-2099
World War, 1939-1945 > Art and the war.
World War, 1939-1945 > Motion pictures and the war.
Aesthetics, Modern > 20th century.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Art et guerre.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Cinéma et guerre.
Esthétique > 20e siècle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
Aesthetics, Modern
War and motion pictures
Art
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Trauma narratives, mixed media, and the meditation on the invisible
  • Imaging Axis terror : War propaganda and the 1943 The Nature of the Enemy exhibition at Rockefeller Center
  • In search of a common vision : Ben Shahn, photography, and The Family of Man exhibition in 1955
  • Transnational romance : Love and politics in the cinema of the 1930s and 1940s
  • Poetry and film, film as poetry : Notes on a history of creative interactions
  • Screening Holocaust : American television and the discourse on "victim cultures" in West Germany.

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