Objects as history in twentieth-century German art
Subtitle: Beckmann to Beuys
By: Peter Chametzky
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780520260429
Subjects: German Art; Art and history
Description: This book provides an overview of twentieth-century German art, focusing on some of the period's key works. In Peter Chametzky's innovative approach, these works become representatives rather than representations of twentieth-century history. Chametzky draws on both scholarly and popular sources to demonstrate how the works (and in some cases, the artists themselves) interacted with, and even enacted, historical events, processes, and ideas.--[book jacket].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Art objects as history; title: Titanic sinks, departure arrives. Max Beckmann's melodramatic role in the fall of history painting and rise of the historical object; title: Lost and found Dada objects and subjects. George Grosz, Hannah Höch, and German Jewish identity; title: Objects of interpretation. Grosz's Germany: a winter's tale; title: Absender: ich. Willi Baumeister's anti-Nazi works as objects of (s)exchange; title: Sculpture and crime. Arno Breker; title: From muscle men to fatty remains. Joseph Beuys's sculptural objects beyond objecthood; title: Conclusion.  Beyond Beuys: Gerhard Richter's choice.