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Objects as history in twentieth-century German art : Beckmann to Beuys
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- Creator
- Peter Chametzky
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Berkeley : University of California Press, [2010]
- ©2010
- Physical Details
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- xi, 286 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 0520947487, 1282771779, 9781282771772, 9780520260429, 9780520947481, 0520260422
- OCLC
- ocn700688850, ocn606760475
- 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