Caught by Politics
Hitler Exiles and American Visual Culture
Published on 14. January 2014
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Paperback/Softback
269 pages
978-1-349-73739-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores German and European exile visual artists, designers and film practitioners in the United States such as Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Hans Richter, Peter Lorre, and Edgar Ulmer and examines how American artists including Walter Quirt, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell responded to the Europeanization of American culture.
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Edition
2007 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-349-73739-0 (9781349737390)
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06/2007
Palgrave MacMillan
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Content
PART I: EXILE AND THE REVALUATION OF HIGH ART Reflections on Max Beckmann's Experience of His American Exile; F.Forster-Hahn George Grosz in Dallas; B.McCloskey The American Reception of Surrealism; A.Miller German Exile, Modern Art and National Identity; S.Eckmann PART II: A GUIDE FOR EMIGRANTS 'You Know, This Isn't Bad Advice'; R.Stih & F.Schnock PART III: POPULAR MODERNISM AND THE LEGACY OF THE AVANT-GARDE IN EXILE Peters and Schneider: The Drawing Board as Home; I.Boyd Whyte Permanent Vacation: Home and Homelessness in the Films of Edgar G. Ulmer; N.Isenberg Mad Love: Re-Membering Berlin in Hollywood Exile; L.Koepnick Directing the Archive: Hans Richter and the Legacies of the European Avant-garde; N.M.Alter