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Jeanne Mammen's watercolour images of the gender-bending 'new
woman' and her candid portrayals of Berlin's thriving nightlife
appeared in some of the most influential magazines of the Weimar
Republic and are still considered characteristic of much of the
'glitter' of that era. This book charts how, once the Nazis came
into power, Mammen instead created 'degenerate' paintings and
collages, translated prohibited French literature and sculpted in
clay and plaster-all while hidden away in her tiny studio apartment
in the heart of Berlin's fashionable west end. What was it like as
a woman artist to produce modern art in Nazi Germany? Can artworks
that were never exhibited in public still make valid claims to
protest? Camilla Smith examines a wide range of Mammen's dissenting
artworks, ranging from those created in solitude during inner
emigration to her collaboration with artist cabarets after the
Second World War. Smith's engaging analysis compares Mammen's
popular Weimar work to her artistic activities under the radar
after 1933, in order to fundamentally rethink the moral
complexities of inner emigration and its visual culture. While
Mammen's artistry is considered through the lens of gender politics
to reveal her complex relationship with the urbanisation of her
time, this book also highlights the crucial role played by a lost
generation of inner emigre women artists as agents of German
modernity. The examination of Mammen's life and work demonstrates
the crucial role women artists played as both markers and agents of
German modernity, but the double marginalisation they have
nonetheless encountered as inner emigres in recent history. It will
be of interest to students of German studies, art history,
literature, history, gender studies and cultural studies.
The Bauhaus Journal, now published in this gorgeous facsimile, is
the ultimate testimony to the school's diversity and impact One
hundred years after the founding of the Bauhaus, it's time to
revisit Bauhaus, the school's journal, as a crucial testimony of
this iconic moment in the history of modern art. This gorgeously
produced, slipcased, 14-volume publication features facsimiles of
individual issues of the journal, as well as a commentary booklet
including an overview of the content, English translations of all
texts and a scholarly essay that places the journal in its
historical context. Even during its existence, the influence of the
Bauhaus school extended well beyond the borders of Europe, and its
practitioners played a formative role in all areas of art, design
and architecture. The school's international reach and impact is
particularly evident in its journal. Bauhaus Journal was published
periodically under the direction of Walter Gropius and L szl
Moholy-Nagy, among others, from 1926 to 1931. In its pages, the
most important voices of the movement were heard: Bauhaus masters
and artists associated with the school such as Josef Albers,
Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Herbert Bayer,
Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Gerrit Rietveld and many
more. The centenary of the Bauhaus provides an ideal opportunity to
reassess this history, to consider the ideals of the school and its
protagonists through this graphically innovative publication.
This new edited volume of critical essays examines designs for
modern living in Asia between 1945 and 1990. Focusing particularly
on the post-World War II and postcolonial years, this book advances
multidisciplinary knowledge on approaches to and designs for modern
living. Developed from extensive primary research and case studies,
each essay illuminates commonalities and particularities of the
trajectories of Modernism and notions of modernity, their
translation and manifestation in life across Asia through design.
Authors address everyday negotiations and experiences of being
modern by studying exhibitions, architecture, modern interiors,
printed ephemera, literary discourses, healthy living movements and
transnational networks of modern designers. They examine processes
of exchange between people, institutions and with governments, in
and across Asia, as well as with the USA and countries in Western
Europe. This book highlights the ways in which the production and
discourses of modern design were underscored by economic
advancement and modernization processes, and fuelled by aesthetic
debates on modern design. Critically exploring design for modern
living in Asia, this book offers fresh perspectives on Modernism to
students and scholars.
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