Michael Mackenzie Otto Dix and the First World War (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Otto Dix and the First World WarCondition: NewEAN: 9783034317238ISBN: 9783034317238Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der WissenschaftenFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 02/25/2019Item Height: 225mmItem Length: 150mmItem Weight: 698gAuthor: Michael MackenzieLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Grotesque Humor, Camaraderie and RemembranceDescription: 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 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. The author argues that Dix sought to establish a community of veterans through depictions of the war experience that used the soldier’s 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: CHBook Series: German Visual CultureGenre: Arts & PhotographyTopic: Military History, HistoryContributor: Christian Weikop (Series edited by)Release Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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