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Objects as History in Twentieth-Century German Art
Peter Chametzky
其他書名
Beckmann to Beuys
出版University of California Press, 2010-11-02
主題Art / GeneralArt / History / GeneralArt / EuropeanArt / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)History / Europe / General
ISBN05202604229780520260429
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Ta4FV8DpcuoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"Reading Peter Chametzky's book feels like receiving a gift: his contextual analyses of German art objects are mobile, generous, and erudite; well-written stories of how the objects' meanings changed and continue to change in the turmoil of history. In addition, selections of the text comprise a fascinating cultural history of alterity told not as a story of Jewish deaths but as one of complex Jewish lives and their significant impact on modern and contemporary Germany's cultural trajectories. Highly recommended and engrossing to read."—Maud Lavin, author of Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women

"This engaging book asks fundamental questions about the object in history and how meaning in art is produced and altered over time. Seamlessly weaving together discourses on gender, the body, ethnicity, film, mass media, and art history, Chametzky deftly explores German art from modernism to post-modernism through cogent case studies drawn from the Wilhelmine, Weimar, Nazi, Cold War, and Reunification eras. His perceptive ventures into such areas as Dada, the machine, and hitherto overlooked Jewish utopian thought provide fresh insights on German art and culture."—Timothy O. Benson, author of Raoul Hausmann and Berlin Dada

"In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Peter Chametzky attends to some of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, all of whom were in one way or another deeply affected by war. Richly researched and full of fresh insights about both canonical and little-known drawings, photomontages, sculpture, and paintings, it exponentially expands our knowledge of the artists who made them. By examining the work in multiple contexts, often in tandem with other media like photography and film, it also reminds us time and again that all art objects are embedded in and thus defined and redefined by an ever-changing present. Theoretically sophisticated yet beautifully written in jargon-free prose, this major contribution to cultural history is, quite simply, a must-read not just for those interested in Germany's conflicted twentieth-century, but, also and more generally, for anyone concerned with how art objects mean."—Maria Makela, California College of the Arts