We Weren't Modern Enough: Woman Artists and the Limits of German Modernism: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism Volume 25 (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism, 25) - Softcover

Meskimmon, Marsha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520221346 ISBN 13: 9780520221345

Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR, 1999

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Book by Meskimmon Marsha

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"This is an important book [and] has wide-ranging implications for any historian concerned with the balance of change and continuity and with the role and interpretation of Classical antiquity in art, in Renaissance studies and beyond."--"The Art Book

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Marsha Meskimmon furnishes a fresh perspective on the art of women in the Weimar Republic and in the process reclaims the lost history of a number of artists who have not received adequate attention--not only because they were women but also because they continued to align themselves with the modes of realistic representation the Expressionists regarded as reactionary. Reconsidering the traditional definitions of German modernism and its central issues of race politics, eugenics, and the city, Meskimmon explores the structures that marginalized the work of little known artists such as Lotte Laserstein, Jeanne Mammen, Gerta Overbeck and Grete Jurgens. She shows how these women's personal and professional experiences in the 1920s and 1930s relate to the visual imagery produced at that time. She also examines representations of different female roles--prostitute, mother, housewife, the "New Woman" and "garconne"--that attracted the attention of these artists. Situating her exploration on a strong theoretical base, she ranges deftly over mass visual culture--from film to poster art and advertising--to create a vivid portrait of women living and creating in Weimar Germany.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: UNIV OF CALIFORNIA PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0520221346
• ISBN 13: 9780520221345
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 263