TY - BOOK AU - Chametsky,Peter TI - Objects as history in twentieth-century German art: Beckmann to Beuys SN - 9780520260429 PY - 2010/// CY - Berkley, Calif. PB - University of California Press KW - Art and history KW - Germany KW - Art, German KW - 20th century N1 - 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 ER -