Frederic J. Schwartz

The Culture of the Case

Madness, Crime, and Justice in Modern German Art

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"An exploration and analysis of the disturbing Lustmord images - graphic representations of sexual murder - by artists such as George Grosz, Otto Dix, Rudolph Schindler, and more generally of the interelationship between art and criminality in early 20th-century Germany and Austria"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 171mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1022g
• ISBN-13: 9780262047708
• ISBN-10: 0262047705
• Artikelnr.: 65545291

Autorenporträt

Frederic J. Schwartz is Emeritus Professor of History of Art at University College London. His books include The Werkbund: Design Theory and Mass Culture before the First World War and Blind Spots: Critical Theory and the History of Art in Twentieth-Century Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Culture of the "Case" and the Problem of Publicness 9
1 Architecture and Crime
Adolf Loos and the Culture of the Case 35
2 Madness, Expressionism, and the Public Sphere
From Oskar Panizza to George Grosz 75
3 Lustmord 
Mapping the Public Sphere 167
4 Politics and "Perversion"
The Cases of Rudolf Schlichter 243
5 Paper, Scissors, Photograph
Bertolt Brecht and the Culture of the Case 295
Conclusion 355
Acknowledgments 361
Notes 363
Index 413