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Objects as history in twentieth-century German art : Beckmann to Beuys / Peter Chametsky.

By: Chametsky, PeterMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Berkley, Calif. : University of California Press, 2010Description: xi, 286 p. $; bill. (b&w) ; 26 cmISBN: 9780520260429Subject(s): Art and history -- Germany | Art, German -- 20th century
Contents:
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 Frosz, Hannah Höch, and German Jewish identity - Objects as interpretation - Absender: ich: Willi Baumeister's anti-Nazi works as objects of (s)exchange - Sculpture and crime: Arno Breker - From muscle men to fatty remains: Josseph Beuys's sculptural objects beyond objecthood - Conclusion: beyond Beuys: Gerhard Richter's choice.
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Includes bibliography (p. 255-268) and index.

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 Frosz, Hannah Höch, and German Jewish identity - Objects as interpretation - Absender: ich: Willi Baumeister's anti-Nazi works as objects of (s)exchange - Sculpture and crime: Arno Breker - From muscle men to fatty remains: Josseph Beuys's sculptural objects beyond objecthood - Conclusion: beyond Beuys: Gerhard Richter's choice.

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