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Ann Murray Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German (Paperback). Dada, followed by Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), confronted social and political issues in new and bold ways. Each chapter provides a case study of the first public display of one or more of Dix’s war pictures at key exhibitions and explores how their reception was subjected to changing socio-political and cultural conditions as well as divergent attitudes to the lost war. Further DetailsTitle: Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936 Condition: New Author: Ann Murray Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts ISBN-10: 135035466X EAN: 9781350354661 ISBN: 9781350354661 Format: Paperback Release Date: 09/04/2025 Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Item Height: 234mm Item Length: 156mm Genre: Arts & Photography Item Width: 20mm Item Weight: 520g Description: The harsh realities of wartime and Weimar-era Germany called for a new kind of art. Dada, followed by Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), confronted social and political issues in new and bold ways. This book highlights how Otto Dix (1891–1969) – one of the leading artists connected to these artistic movements – employed these new approaches to reveal the injustices of wartime and post-World War I Germany. Having spent 38 months on the frontline, his pictures revealed the brutalities of the conflict and helped establish him as one of Europe’s leading modernists.Offering substantial new research and presenting numerous primary sources to an English readership for the first time, the book examines Dix’s war pictures within the broader visual culture of war in order to assess how they functioned alternatively as cutting-edge modernist art and transgressive war commemoration.Each chapter provides a case study of the first public display of one or more of Dix’s war pictures at key exhibitions and explores how their reception was subjected to changing socio-political and cultural conditions as well as divergent attitudes to the lost war. It pulls together a number of key approaches and texts: contemporary reviews, contemporary cultural productions (such as novels and cartoons), and theoretical and historical approaches from history, memory studies and art history.Bringing a unique perspective and original scholarship to Dix’s war works, this book is essential reading for art historians of World War I and the visual culture of Weimar Germany. Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts Release Year: 2025 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
