Caught: The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republic - Hardcover

Kuehn, Karl Gernot

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520204360 ISBN 13: 9780520204362

Verlag: University of California Press, 1997

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Book by Kuehn Karl Gernot

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Behind the Iron Curtain, against all odds, photography secretly flourished as an art in the German Democratic Republic. The author writes of East Germany from 1945 - four years before the socialist nation was officially carved out of the former German Reich - to 1989, when the dictatorship fell and 40 years of isolation ended. Analyzing how Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker harnessed the power of photography to shape and reflect the paradigmatic Marxist state, Kuehn reveals how this very same process inadvertently helped nurture individual creativity and the "silent revolution" of the 1980s. "Caught" offers an appraisal of the artistic, social and political evolution of the GDR through the eyes of the participating photographers. It is an intimate portrayal of a people "caught" in the conflicting dicatates of ideology, artistic oppression, a troubled national past and basic human desires.

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"This absolutely compelling analysis . . . situates the individual artists well in their milieu. The descriptions . . . are consistently forceful, persuasive, and highly informative."Jean Quataert, coeditor ofConnecting Spheres

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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0520204360
• ISBN 13: 9780520204362
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 247