Otto Dix and the First World War

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Grotesque Humor, Camaraderie and Remembrance, German Visual Culture 6

ISBN: 3034317239
ISBN 13: 9783034317238
Autor: Mackenzie, Michael
Herausgeber: Christian Weikop
Verlag: Peter Lang
Umfang: 448 S., 9 farbige Illustr.
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.02.2019
Auflage: 1/2019
Format: 2.9 x 23.1 x 15.5
Gewicht: 773 g
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: GEB

Otto Dix fought in the First World War for four years before becoming one of the most important artists of the Weimar era. This book takes Dix’s very public, monumental works out of the isolation of the artist’s studio and returns them to a context of public memorials, mass media depictions, and the communal search for meaning in the war.

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Beschreibung

Otto Dix fought in the First World War for the better part of four years before becoming one of the most important artists of the Weimar era. Marked by the experience, he made monumental, difficult and powerful works about it. Whereas Dix has often been presented as a lone voice of reason and opposition in Germany between the wars, this book locates his work squarely in the mainstream of Weimar society. Informed by recent studies of collective remembrance, of camaraderie, and of the popular, working-class socialist groups that commemorated the war, this book takes Dixs very public, monumental works out of the isolation of the artists studio and returns them to a context of public memorials, mass media depictions, and the communal search for meaning in the war. The author argues that Dix sought to establish a community of veterans through depictions of the war experience that used the soldiers humorous, grotesque language of the trenches and that deliberately excluded women and other non-combatants. His depictions were preoccupied with heteronormativity in the context of intimate touch and tenderness between soldiers at the front and with sexual potency in the face of debilitating wounds suffered by others in the war.

Autorenporträt

Michael Mackenzie is Professor of Modern Art History at DePauw University. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. Significant publications include 'From Athens to Berlin: The 1936 Olympics and Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia' (Critical Inquiry, Vol. 29) and, most recently, 'Painters, Planners, and Bricklayers: Making the Social Circulate in Otto Nagel's Young Bricklayer from the Stalinallee' (Centropa, Vol. 15, No. 2).

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