Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936
Series: Visual Cultures and German Contexts;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Date of Publication 4 September 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350354661
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 234x156x20 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 54 bw illus 700
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Long description:
The harsh realities of wartime and Weimar-era Germany called for a new kind of art. Dada, followed by Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity), confronted social and political issues in new and bold ways. This book highlights how Otto Dix (1891-1969) - one of the leading artists connected to these artistic movements - employed these new approaches to reveal the injustices of wartime and post-World War I Germany. Having spent 38 months on the frontline, his pictures revealed the brutalities of the conflict and helped establish him as one of Europe's leading modernists.
Offering substantial new research and presenting numerous primary sources to an English readership for the first time, the book examines Dix's war pictures within the broader visual culture of war in order to assess how they functioned alternatively as cutting-edge modernist art and transgressive war commemoration.
Each chapter provides a case study of the first public display of one or more of Dix's war pictures at key exhibitions and explores how their reception was subjected to changing socio-political and cultural conditions as well as divergent attitudes to the lost war. It pulls together a number of key approaches and texts: contemporary reviews, contemporary cultural productions (such as novels and cartoons), and theoretical and historical approaches from history, memory studies and art history.
Bringing a unique perspective and original scholarship to Dix's war works, this book is essential reading for art historians of World War I and the visual culture of Weimar Germany.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Note on Translations
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. 1914-1918
2. The War Amputee as Anti-Icon
3. Disenchanting Mars: The Trench and The War
4. Metropolis as War Memorialisation
5. War at the Prussian Academy of Arts
6. The Fate of the War Pictures in the Early Years of the Third Reich
Conclusion
Sources and Bibliography
Index
