Art Outside the Lines

New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-420-3341-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 74, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 220 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: German Monitor

This collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of East German art, film, literature, music, and museum studies, seeks to renegotiate the artistic legacy of the German Democratic Republic. Combining a range of theoretical and practical perspectives, the volume challenges the narrow frameworks of totalitarianism and Ostalgie that have dominated discussions of art produced in the GDR. It explores the diversity of art produced in the state and contests the long-held perception that socialist realism and artistic innovation were mutually exclusive. Crucially, the collection puts art itself to the fore; GDR art is considered not simply as a political by-product, as is so often the case, but as an entity of innovation and aesthetic value in its own right.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kelly, Elaine

Wlodarski, Amy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Elaine Kelly and Amy Wlodarski: Introduction
Public Confrontations of GDR Art
April A. Eisman: In the Crucible: Bernhard Heisig and the Hotel Deutschland Murals
Skyler J. Arndt-Briggs: The Invisible Uprising: Filmmaking and East Germany’s ‘Day X’
Kristine Nielsen: Quid pro quo: Assessing the Value of Berlin’s Thälmann Monument
Internationalism and GDR Art
Sigrid Hofer: Beyond Socialist Realism: Alternative Painting in Dresden
Sara Lennox: Reading Transnationally: the GDR and American Black Writers
Joy H. Calico: The Legacy of GDR Directors on the Post-Wende Opera Stage
Alternative Musical Voices
Matthias Tischer: Music and Discourse
Nina Noeske: Gender Discourse and Musical Life in the GDR
Laura Silverberg: ‘Monopol der Diskussion?’: Alternative Voices in the Verband Deutscher Komponisten und Musikwissenschaftler
Curating the GDR
Jonathan Osmond: German Art Collections and Exhibits since 1989: the Legacy of the GDR
Silke Wagler: Re-introducing GDR Art to Germany: the Kunstfonds in Dresden
Justinian Jampol: ‘GDR on the Pacific’: (Re)presenting East Germany in Los Angeles
Select Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index