Nazi Exhibition Design and Modernism - Softcover

Tymkiw, Michael

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9781517900571: Nazi Exhibition Design and Modernism
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ISBN 10: 1517900573 ISBN 13: 9781517900571
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2018

Synopsis

A new and challenging perspective on Nazi exhibition design

In one of the most comprehensive analyses ever written on the subject, Michael Tymkiw reassesses the relationship between Nazi exhibition design and modernism. While National Socialist exhibitions are widely understood as platforms for attacking modern art, they also served as sites of surprising formal experimentation among artists, architects, and others, who often drew upon and reconfigured the practices and principles of modernism when designing exhibition spaces and the objects within. In this book, Tymkiw reveals that a central motivation behind such experimentation was the interest in provoking what he calls "engaged spectatorship"—attempts to elicit experiences among exhibition-goers that would pique their desire to become involved in wider processes of social and political change. 

For historians of art, architecture, performance, and other forms of visual culture, Nazi Exhibition Design and Modernism unravels long-held assumptions, particularly concerning the ideological stakes of participation.

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About the Author

Michael Tymkiw is lecturer in art history at the University of Essex.

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Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1517900573
ISBN 13 
9781517900571
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
320
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