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Nazi exhibition design and modernism
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"While National Socialist exhibitions are seen as platforms for attacking modern art, they also served as sites of surprising formal experimentation among artists, architects, and others, who often...
"While National Socialist exhibitions are seen as platforms for attacking modern art, they also served as sites of surprising formal experimentation among artists, architects, and others, who often drew upon the practices and principles of modernism when designing exhibition spaces. Michael Tymkiw reveals that a central motivation behind such experimentation was the interest in provoking what he calls "engaged spectatorship.""--
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- Creator
- Michael Tymkiw
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]
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- 298 pages ; 27 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781517900564, 9781517900571, 1517900565, 1517900573, 9781452956770, 9781452956763, 1452956774, 1452956766
- OCLC
- on1007309172, on1013528745
- Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Chicago, 2014) under the title: National socialist exhibition design, spectatorship, and the fabrication of Volksgemeinschaft.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Introduction: Experimental Exhibition Design under National Socialism -- Part I. Entangled in Debates on Modern Art and Architecture -- 1. Falling into Line: Three Early Experiments in Visualizing Collectivity Formation -- 2. Reconfiguring Expressionism: Otto Andreas Schreiber and the Mass Production of Factory Exhibitions -- Part II. The Persistence of Formal Dialectics -- 3. Photomurals after Pressa -- 4. Fragmentation and the "Jewish-Bolshevist Enemy" -- Epilogue: German Exhibition Design after National Socialism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index