Caught by politics : Hitler exiles and American visual culture / edited by Sabine Eckmann and Lutz K...
Caught by politics : Hitler exiles and American visual culture / edited by Sabine Eckmann and Lutz K...
Caught by politics : Hitler exiles and American visual culture / edited by Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick.
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Publisher
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2007.
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N700.8691/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 269 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Introduction : caught by politics / Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick -- Ch. 1. Max Beckmann in California : exile, memory, and renewal / Francoise Forster-Hahn -- Ch. 2. Exile for hire : George Grosz in Dallas / Barbara McCloskey -- Ch. 3. "With eyes wide open" : the American reception of surrealism...
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Publisher
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2007.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c2007.
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Summary
"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-reinvention...
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Caught by politics : Hitler exiles and American visual culture / edited by Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick.
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Studies in European culture and history.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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c2007.
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N700.8691/1
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74VKR6GkaG3g
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ISBN
1403974888 (alk. paper)
9781403974884 (alk. paper)
DDC
700.8691
MMS ID
991023065739702626
