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The Exile of George Grosz - Modernism, America, and the One World Order (Hardcover)
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The Exile of George Grosz - Modernism, America, and the One World Order (Hardcover)
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The Exile of George Grosz examines the life and work of George
Grosz after he fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and sought to re-establish
his artistic career under changed circumstances in New York. It
situates Grosz's American production specifically within the
cultural politics of German exile in the United States during World
War II and the Cold War. Basing her study on extensive archival
research and using theories of exile, migrancy, and
cosmopolitanism, McCloskey explores how Grosz's art illuminates the
changing cultural politics of exile. She also foregrounds the terms
on which German exile helped to define both the limits and
possibilities of American visions of a one world order under U.S.
leadership that emerged during this period. This book presents
Grosz's work in relation to that of other prominent figures of the
German emigration, including Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht, as the
exile community agonized over its measure of responsibility for the
Nazi atrocity German culture had become and debated what Germany's
postwar future should be. Important too at this time were Grosz's
interactions with the American art world. His historical
allegories, self-portraits, and other works are analyzed as
confrontational responses to the New York art world's consolidating
consensus around Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism during and
after World War II. This nuanced study recounts the controversial
repatriation of Grosz's work, and the exile culture of which it was
a part, to a German nation perilously divided between East and West
in the Cold War.
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