Caught by politics
Subtitle: Hitler exiles and American visual culture
By: edited by Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick.
Contributors: Eckmann, Sabine.; Koepnick, Lutz P.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Studies in European culture and history
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; Springer
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9781403974884
Subjects: Arts, American -- 20th century; Modernism (Art) -- United States; Expatriate artists -- United States; Artists -- Europe
Description: "Caught by Politics recalls the exile of German and European visual artists and film practitioners in the United States. The book traces the paths and aesthetic strategies of Hitler exiles in the United States as ones of productive encounters and ironic cultural masquerades. While stressing creative transformations and performative self-reinventions, the accounts don't ignore the hardship of forced displacement. Caught by Politics encourages the reader to revise dominant and one-sided understandings of modernist culture and instead to engage with the various cross-cultural dialogues between European and American artists."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [245]-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: caught by politics / Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick. Pt. 1. Exile and the revalution of fine art. Max Beckmann in California: exile, memory, and renewal / Françoise Forster-Hahn; title: Exile for hire: George Grosz in Dallas / Barbara McCloskey; title: "With eyes wide open": the American reception of surrealism / Angela Miller; title: German exile, modern art, and national identity / Sabine Eckmann. Pt. 2. A guide for emigrants. "You know, this isn't bad advice!!" / Renata Smith and Frieder Schnock. Pt. 3. Popular modernism and the legacy of the avant-garde in exile. Peters and Schneider: the drawing board as home / Iain Boyd Whyte; title: Permanent vacation: home and homelessness in the life and work of Edgar G. Ulmer / Noah Isenberg; title: Mad love: re-membering Berlin in Hollywood exile / Lutz Koepnick; title: Hans Richter in exile: translating the avant-garde / Nora M. Alter.