Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936
Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936
Description
This book examines the confrontational war pictures of Otto Dix (1891–1969) and explores their role in shaping the memory of World War I in Germany from 1914 to 1936.
Dix's thirty-eight months on the World War I battlefields profoundly influenced his post-war artistic career, saw him produce some of the most enduring images of the conflict and establish himself as one of Europe's leading modernists.
Offering substantial new research and presenting numerous primary sources to an English readership for the first time, the book examines Dix's war pictures within the broader visual culture of war in order to assess how they functioned alternatively as cutting-edge modernist art and transgressive war commemoration. Each chapter provides a case study of the first public display of one or more of Dix's war pictures at key exhibitions and explores how their reception was subjected to changing socio-political and cultural conditions as well as divergent attitudes to the lost war.
Bringing a unique perspective and original scholarship to Dix's war works, this book is essential reading for art historians of World War I and the visual culture of Weimar Germany.
Table of Contents
Note on Translations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. 1914-1918
2. The War Amputee as Anti-Icon
3. Disenchanting Mars: The Trench and The War
4. Metropolis as War Memorialisation
5. War at the Prussian Academy of Arts
6. The Fate of the War Pictures in the Early Years of the Third Reich
Conclusion
Sources and Bibliography
Index
Product details
| Published | 02 Nov 2023 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781350354630 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 54 bw illus |
| Series | Visual Cultures and German Contexts |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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