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German Art from Beckmann to Richter : Images of a Divided Country

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ISBN-10: 0300073240

ISBN-13: 9780300073249

Edition: 1997

Authors: Eckhart Gillen

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This book, a survey of German art between 1945 and 1990, compares how art mirrored the different political circumstances in the 2 German states during this period, and how artists from East and West responded to various influences.
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List price: $85.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 12/22/1997
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 546
Size: 9.50" wide x 11.25" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 5.786
Language: English

Thanks and Acknowledgements
Lenders to the Exhibition
Foreword
Prologue: After the Satires III (The Long Sleep)
German Images from Beckmann to Richter: Tabula Rasa and Inwardness: German Images before and after 1945
Man in the Dark: Max Beckmann - Julius Bissier - Max Ernst - Otto Freundlich - Hermann Glockner - Hans Hartung - Paul Klee - Wilhelm Lachnit - Felix Nussbaum - Richard Oelze - Oskar Schlemmer - Hans Uhlmann - Fritz Winter - Wols
Max Beckmann - Three Stations
Max Beckmann: Selfportrait with Cigarette
Max Ernst: The House Angel
Oskar Schlemmer's Wall Painting Family
Paul Klee's Late Works
Hans Hartung - Examples of His Work from the 1930s
Wols
Hermann Glockner's Board Work
Night over Germany: Otto Dix - Hans Grundig - Werner Heldt - Karl Hofer - Wilhelm Rudolph - Horst Strempel
Images around 1945: Felix Nussbaum, Karl Hofer, Werner Heldt, Otto Dix, Hans Grundig, Horst Strempel
Wilhelm Rudolph: Dresden Destroyed
Atlantis - To New Shores: Josef Albers - Willi Baumeister - Hap Grieshaber - Norbert Kricke - Ernst Wilhelm Nay
The Resurrection of Culture in Germany?
Josef Albers - Thinking in Situations
The Artist's Identification with His Time: The Painter Ernst Wilhelm Nay
Two Sculptures in Space by Norbert Kricke
HAP Grieshaber
Against the Inability to Mourn: Gerhard Altenbourg - Manfred Bottcher - Raimund Girke - Konrad Klapheck - Harald Metzkes - Emil Schumacher - Gunther Uecker
"Emigration Once Again"
Gerhard Altenbourg's Human Show: Ecce Homo
Injury to the Color Fields: Gunther Uecker's Early Work
Manifestations of a New Generation: Georg Baselitz - Eva Hesse - Heimrad Prem - Eugen Schonebeck - Helmut Sturm - HP Zimmer
A Painting for the Fathers
Georg Baselitz: The Poet
AGIT. PROMETH. - or - The Night of the Senses. 1st and 2nd Pandemonium by Eugen Schonebeck and Georg Baselitz
"Words are Swingling Swine": The Unfinished Work of the Painter Eugen Schonebeck
Between Passion and Manifesto: SPUR from 1958-1965
Heimrad Prem: Only Struggle Strengthens Me
A Break with Socialist Idealism: Hartwig Ebersbach - Bernhard Heisig - Manfred Kempfer - Roger Loewig - Wolfgang Mattheuer - Werner Tubke
Time Held Still
Werner Tubke: Reminiscences of JD Schulze III
A Divided Country: Immendorff Visits Y: Immendorff - A.R. Penck
Icon and Cosmicon: On A.R. Penck
Immendorff Times Penck X Penck Times Immendorff
Phenomenology of Repression: Imi Knoebel - Blinky Palermo - Sigmar Polke - Gerhard Richter - Wolf Vostell
Fluxus at the Border; Aachen, July 20, 1964
Wolf Vostell: German View
Not a Monument, but Rather Food for Thought Reconstruction of the exhibition "Hommage a Lidice" in 1967: HP Alvermann - Joseph Beuys - KP Brehmer - HJ Dietrich - Gotthard Graubner - Karl Horst Hodicke - Bernhard Hoke - Jorg Immendorff - Bernd Koberling - Konrad Lueg - CO Paeffgen - Chris Reinecke - Dieter Rot - Gerhard Ruhm - Gunther Uecker - Stefan Wewerka - Lambert Maria Wintersberger
Remembrance of the Bitching Sheet
Gerhard Richter: Capitalist Realism and His Painting from Photographs, 1962-1966
Sigmar Polke's Images of Germany
Blinky Palermo
Imi Knoebel: Room 19
Art Nourishes Life: Joseph Beuys
Joseph Beuys: "Auschwitz Demonstration" 1956-1964
Berlin's "Economic Assets", Beuys's Meeting with Eduard Gaertner and Anton von Werner
Writing Time: Carlfriedrich Claus - Hanne Darboven - Franz Erhard Walther
Reading Carlfriedrich Claus's Sprachblatter
Hanne Darboven's "Fur Rainer Werner Fassbinder" (1982): A Tractate on the Duty of the Artist
Facing the Deceased: Peter Herrmann - Gustav Kluge - Mark Lammert - Rosemarie Trockel
Paintings by Peter Herrmann, Gustav Kluge, and Mark Lammert
Gustav Kluge: Stammheim Duet
Rosemarie Trockel: "Mother and "Father"
Manet-Projekt '74: Hans Haacke
Hans Haacke Manet-PROJEKT '74
The Living Stink: Georg Hepold - Sigmar Polke - Via Lewandowsky
Fear of Germany
Germany's Spiritual Heroes: Anselm Kiefer - Markus Lupertz - Georg Herold - Dieter Rot
Diving Out One Devil With Another. Prescription of Symptoms as Therapy
For the Life of Me, I can't See any Swastikas: Werner Buttner - Martin Kippenberger - Albert Oehlen - Heribert C. Ottersbach - Andreas Slominski
From History to the Commemorative Hour: Why Buttner, Kippenberger, and Oehlen?
Slominski or the Inconspicuous
Picking up the Shards: On Heribert C. Ottersbach
Kopfdiktate: Reinhard Mucha
Reinhard Mucha: Kopfdiktate
The Sons Die Before the Fathers: Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977
How the Soul Leaves the Body. Gerhard Richter's Cycle October 18, 1977, the Last Chapter in West German Postwar Painting
Suffering from Germany - Gerhard Richter's Elegy of Modernism: Philosophy of History in the Cycle October 18, 1977
Synchronicities: Rudolf Bonvie - Gunther Forg - Jochen Gerz - Hans Haacke - Astrid Klein - Thomas Locher - Olaf Metzel
Und. Tschuss. Conversations
Jochen Gerz: Exit Materials on the Dachau Project (1972/74)
Hans Haacke: The Historical "Sublime"
Three Works by Astrid Klein
Three Works by Rudolf Bonvie
The IG-Farben-House Photography by Gunther Forg
Why a Commentary on the Constitution?
Timecuts: Olaf Arndt - Rudolf Bonvie - Matti Braun - Klaus Vom Bruch - Lutz Dammbeck - Felix Droese - Flatz - Otto Freundlich - Georg Herold - Rudolf Herz - Marcel Odenbach - Raffael Rheinsberg - Renata Stih Et Frieder Schnock - Ulay
John Heartfield - Georg Herold
Germany 1997 - Stewed in its Own Juice, or Packed in Oil?
Rudolf Herz: Dachau. Museum Pictures
Ulay's Performance Piece "There is a Criminal Touch in Art"
Is the Personal Really Political? Notes on Marcel Odenbach's "A Fist in the Pocket"
Klaus von Bruch's Images of Germany: The Military-Industrial Complex
Poison Cabinet. Report from the Project: The Glass Block
Heracle's Cave - War of the Viruses
The Film Diary "Bildersturm"
FLATZ: Hitler in Good Hands
To Matti Braun. Not This Way
Print and Double Print: Felix Droese's Graphic Series "The Doubled Center"
Raffael Rheinsberg: Broken German
Places of Remembrance: Minka Hauschild - Joshua Neustein - Penny Yassour
"To Remember Means to Forget What Our Eyes Have Seen": Works of Joshua Neustein, Penny Yassour, and Minka Hauschild
Artists' Biographies
Selected Exhibitions and Publications on German Art after 1945
Photograph Credits