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Author Siebrecht, Claudia, author.

Title The aesthetics of loss : German women's art of the First World War / Claudia Siebrecht.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2013]

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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.
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Subject World War (1914-1918)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Art and the war.
Genre/Form Art and the war.
Subject Women artists -- Germany -- 20th century.
Women artists.
Germany.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Loss (Psychology) in art.
Loss (Psychology) in art.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Art.
Art.
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)
0191630675 (electronic book)
9780199656684
0199656681
9780191744563
0191744565
Standard No. 99957681291