{"product_id":"otto-dix-and-the-memorialization-of-world-war-i-in-german-visual-culture-1914-1936-by-ann-murray-9781350354661","title":"Otto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe harsh realities of wartime and Weimar-era Germany called for a new kind of art.\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOffering substantial new research and presenting numerous primary sources to an English readership for the first time, \u003cem\u003eOtto Dix and the Memorialization of World War I in German Visual Culture, 1914-1936\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBringing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48010604478700,"sku":"9781350354661","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350354661-otto-dix-and-the-memorialization-of-world-war-i-in-german-visual-culture-1914-1936.jpg?v=1785153488","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/otto-dix-and-the-memorialization-of-world-war-i-in-german-visual-culture-1914-1936-by-ann-murray-9781350354661","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}