Caught by Politics

Hitler Exiles and American Visual Culture
2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-4039-7488-4
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Format (B × H): 180 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

Reihe: Studies in European Culture and History

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eckmann, S.

Koepnick, L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

SABINE ECKMANN is the director of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

LUTZ KOEPNICK is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.