Deborah Schultz, Edward Timms

Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period

Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates creative responses to the Nazi period in the work of three artists, Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, focusing on their use of pictorial narrative in which they combined words with images.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 150
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 214mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 259g
• ISBN-13: 9781138978942
• ISBN-10: 1138978949
• Artikelnr.: 44734561

Autorenporträt

Edward Timms is Research Professor in History at the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, and a Fellow of the British Academy. He is best known for his book Karl Kraus - Apocalyptic Satirist, published in two volumes as Culture and Catastrophe in Habsburg Vienna (1986) and The Post-War Crisis and the Rise of the Swastika (2005). Deborah Schultz is Research Fellow in the Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex. She is the author of Marcel Broodthaers: Strategy and Dialogue (2007) and co-editor with Edward Timms of Arnold Daghani's Memories of Mikhailowka: The Illustrated Diary of a Slave Labour Camp Survivor (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Pictorial narrative as the art of crisis: purity, hybridity and
representation
2. Autobiographical motifs in the paintings of Felix Nussbaum
3. Charlotte Salomon's Life? or Theatre?: a multimedia response to the
crisis of German culture
4. Charlotte Salomon: images, dialogues and silences
5. Survival and memory: Arnold Daghani's verbal and visual diaries
6. Postwar pictorial narratives: from Daghani to Kitaj
7. Painting under pressure: self-reflection and the breakthrough to new
forms
8. Breaking the silence: pictorial narratives of the Nazi period presented
to modern audiences