Objects as history in twentieth-century German art : Beckmann to Beuys /
Chametzky, Peter,1958-
Berkeley : University of California Press,
c2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. Art objects as history -- Titanic sinks, departure arrives. Max Beckmann's melodramatic role in the fall of history painting and rise of the historical object -- Lost and found Dada objects and subjects. George Grosz, Hannah Höch, and German Jewish identity -- Objects of interpretation. Grosz's Germany: a winter's tale -- Absender: ich. Willi Baumeister's anti-Nazi works as objects of (s)exchange -- Sculpture and crime. Arno Breker -- From muscle men to fatty remains. Joseph Beuys's sculptural objects beyond objecthood -- Conclusion.  Beyond Beuys: Gerhard Richter's choice.
Art and history
Art, German