Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
1 online resource (xii, 188 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : war experience, visual narrative, and identity -- Female artists and cultural mobilization for war -- The toll of the long war -- Art and grief -- Mourning mothers -- Resurrection, rebirth, and the limits of sacrificial ideology. |
Summary |
The Aesthetics of Loss' is a cultural history of German women's art of the First World War that locates the artists' rich visual testimony in the context of the civilian experience of war and wartime loss. Drawing on a fascinating body of visual sources produced throughout the war years, Claudia Siebrecht examines the thematic evolution of women's art from expressions of support for the war effort to more nuanced and ambivalent testimonies of loss and grief. Many of the images are stark woodcuts, linocuts, and lithographs of great iconographical power that acted as narrative tools to deal with the novel, unsettling, and often traumatic experience of war. German female artists developed a unique aesthetic response to the conflict that both expressed emotional distress and allowed them to re-imagine the place of mourning women in wartime society. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
World War (1914-1918) |
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Art and the war.
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Genre/Form |
Art and the war.
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Subject |
Women artists -- Germany -- 20th century.
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Women artists. |
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Germany. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Loss (Psychology) in art.
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Loss (Psychology) in art. |
Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books.
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Art.
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Art.
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Other Form: |
Reproduction of (manifestation): Siebrecht, Claudia. Aesthetics of loss. First edition. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013 0199656681 (DLC) 2013388100 (OCoLC)859158879 |
ISBN |
9780191630675 (electronic book) |
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0191630675 (electronic book) |
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9780199656684 |
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0199656681 |
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9780191744563 |
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0191744565 |
Standard No. |
99957681291 |
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