Claudia Siebrecht

The Aesthetics of Loss: German Women's Art of the First World War

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Produktbeschreibung

An examination of German women's art produced during the First World War that places the artists' visual responses within the civilian war experience. Traces the thematic evolution of women's art from visual expressions of support for the national war effort to more nuanced and distraught representations of grief over wartime death.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780199656684
• ISBN-10: 0199656681
• Artikelnr.: 37602752

Autorenporträt

Dr Claudia Siebrecht is a lecturer in modern European History at the University of Sussex.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: War Experience, Visual Narrative, and Identity
1: Female Artists and Cultural Mobilisation for War
2: The Toll of the Long War
3: Art and Grief
4: Mourning Mothers
5: Resurrection, Rebirth, and the Limits of Sacrificial Ideologies
Conclusion
Appendix I: Statistical Overview
Appendix II: Short Biographies
Sources and Bibliography
Index