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paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. Middlebury. 2015. September 2015. Middlebury College Museum of Art. 1st Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781928825104. 116 pages. paperback. keywords: Art Germany Austria. DESCRIPTION - In 1899 Gustav Klimt's painting Nuda Veritas shook up the Austrian public with what many deem to be the painter's most political exploration of the nude female body. Klimt's provocative allegory challenged viewers to consider their own beliefs about the relationship between the nude (female) body and contemporary morality; this naked truth was shocking. Transcending accusations of pornography, Klimt's work paved the way for artistic examinations of the nude body as the site through which questions of freedom, desire, beauty, nature, culture, power, and their antonyms could be represented and negotiated. Taking these ideas as one critical point of departure, this volume and the accompanying exhibition feature selected prints, drawings, and watercolors by Klimt, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann and K the Kollwitz, among others. It explores the conceptions of the human body and the manner of its visualization in the period leading up to and following the First World War, which changed the world's notions of flesh and blood forever. inventory #48134.…

Paperback. Condition: New. In 1899 Gustav Klimt's painting Nuda Veritas shook up the Austrian public with what many deem to be the painter's most political exploration of the nude female body. Klimt's provocative allegory challenged viewers to consider their own beliefs about the relationship between the nude (female) body and contemporary morality; this "naked truth" was shocking. Transcending accusations of pornography, Klimt's work paved the way for artistic examinations of the nude body as the site through which questions of freedom, desire, beauty, nature, culture, power, and their antonyms could be represented and negotiated. Taking these ideas as one critical point of departure, this volume and the accompanying exhibition feature selected prints, drawings, and watercolors by Klimt, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann and Kathe Kollwitz, among others. It explores the conceptions of the human body and the manner of its visualization in the period leading up to and following the First World War, which changed the world's notions of flesh and blood forever. The book will appeal to students and scholars of German and Austrian art and culture.…

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st. 111 pages, illustrations (colour); 26 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Naked Truth: Approaches to the Body in Early-Twentieth-Century German-Austrian Art," on view at the Middlebury College Museum of Art from September 11 through December 6, 2015. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "In 1899 Gustav Klimt's painting 'Nuda Veritas' shook up the Austrian public with what many deem to be the painter's most political exploration of the nude female body. Klimt's provocative allegory challenged viewers to consider their own beliefs about the relationship between the nude (female) body and contemporary morality; this 'naked truth' was shocking. Transcending accusations of pornography, Klimt's work paved the way for artistic examinations of the nude body as the site through which questions of freedom, desire, beauty, nature, culture, power, and their antonyms could be represented and negotiated. Taking these ideas as one critical point of departure, this volume and the accompanying exhibition feature selected prints, drawings, and watercolors by Klimt, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann and Kathe Kollwitz, among others. It explores the conceptions of the human body and the manner of its visualization in the period leading up to and following the First World War, which changed the world's notions of flesh and blood forever." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction: a sketch of early-twentieth-century German and Austrian prints and drawings, by James A. van Dyke; Body matters: approaches to the human body in early-twentieth-century German discourse and practice, by Bettina Matthias; States of the body in the work of Georg Grosz and Otto Dix, by Eliza Garrison; On the grotesque body in a double-sided drawing by Otto Dix, by James A. van Dyke; Checklist of the exhibition and artist biographies, by Peter Moore. Size: 4to. Collectible. …

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Hardback. Condition: New. How small details in the paintings of Otto Dix materialize the realities of a modern German artist.   Offering a fresh look at German art during a period of extraordinary transition and precarity, James A. van Dyke focuses on overlooked but critically significant details in works completed by Otto Dix between 1919 and 1936. A small lump of paint, a monogram, an almost invisible self-portrait, the verso of a drawing, a patch of discoloration, and a web of fine cracks-van Dyke reveals such details, hidden in plain sight, as coded dialogue through which Dix addressed audiences and art-world insiders amid the combative world of cultural production in Weimar Germany. Sly, cutting, and provocative, these are the material traces of social relationships between the painter and those who represented threats to his professional ambition: an avant-garde mentor and rival, an increasingly skeptical critic, a prominent bourgeois photographer, and a local Nazi authority.   Proving that small things offer insight into the big picture, this book highlights Dix's satirical, transgressive work as nuanced and polyvocal, reflecting the complex fields of power and economics in which the field of art is located.…

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4°, gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Sehr gut. 255 S. : zahlr. Ill. SU., gebraucht: sehr guter Zustand. Paul Klees Wertschätzung unter den Künstlern und Kunstinteressierten als Wegbereiter der Moderne bestand bereits, als er 1931 nach den Jahren am Dessauer Bauhaus an die Düsseldorfer Kunstakademie berufen wurde. Schon früh pflegte er besonders durch seine Freundschaft mit August Macke und Heinrich Campendonk enge Kontakte zum Rheinland, die sich durch eine treue Schar namhafter rheinischer Sammler und Mäzene intensivierte. Der Blick dieses Katalogbuches auf die Kunst Paul Klees im Rheinland ist mehr als die Dokumentation eines Zeitabschnittes im Leben dieses Künstlers. Denn er eröffnet ein umfassendes Bild seines Schaffens in den für ihn so wichtigen zwanziger und dreißiger Jahren. Neben den wunderbaren pointillistischen Werken, die in Düsseldorf entstanden sind, gelingt es dieser Publikation mit etwa 120 Gemälden und farbigen Arbeiten auf Papier einen repräsentativen Überblick über Klees Ouvre zu geben, für das sich seinerzeit die rheinische Kunstszene und die dort ansässigen Kunstliebhaber auf Anhieb begeisterten. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1728.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. How small details in the paintings of Otto Dix materialize the realities of a modern German artist. Offering a fresh look at German art during a period of extraordinary transition and precarity, James A. van Dyke focuses on overlooked but critically significant details in works completed by Otto Dix between 1919 and 1936. A small lump of paint, a monogram, an almost invisible self-portrait, the verso of a drawing, a patch of discoloration, and a web of fine cracksvan Dyke reveals such details, hidden in plain sight, as coded dialogue through which Dix addressed audiences and art-world insiders amid the combative world of cultural production in Weimar Germany. Sly, cutting, and provocative, these are the material traces of social relationships between the painter and those who represented threats to his professional ambition: an avant-garde mentor and rival, an increasingly skeptical critic, a prominent bourgeois photographer, and a local Nazi authority. Proving that small things offer insight into the big picture, this book highlights Dix's satirical, transgressive work as nuanced and polyvocal, reflecting the complex fields of power and economics in which the field of art is located. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. xii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm ; OCLC 793852836; art nouveau design with thistles and in green and brown on brown cloth ; no dustjacket ; missing first four pages (replacements provided); "Reading with appreciation is a fine art. This volume contains some of the gems of literature which the race has learned to love. Some of the 'old fashioned selections' and some of the most charming new short classics, are offered as a basis for study and appreciation. The average pupil will study his reading lesson with zest if he is given some definite work to do. In these studies, the brief introduction to each selection is intended to whet the pupil's appetite.The exercises following each study make his study definite and to the point. Helpful notes are added wherever necessary, and additional readings are given. ; Contents: America -- Our native land -- The young witness -- Your first duty -- The blind men and the elephant -- Washington's rules of conduct -- The captain's daughter -- What do they say? -- The whistle -- My dog Blanco -- None of the beauty is wasted -- Arthur's prayer at Rugby -- All is beauty -- Life -- Woodman! Spare that tree! -- Why do bells for Christians ring? -- Expert dervice -- The Three Graces -- Professor Frog's lecture -- Flower in the crannied wall -- The High Court of Inquiry -- A prayer -- To a waterfowl -- The mystery of life -- Song -- Santa Filomena -- The country's call -- How t he crickets brought good fortune -- The flag -- In school days -- Four things -- The flag goes by -- A message to Garcia -- The Brook -- The barefoot boy -- The old Puritan lawmaker -- Work done squarely -- Is there a Santa Claus? -- Nathan Hale -- Kind hearts and simple faith -- De. John Goodfellow-Office Upstairs -- The procrustean bed -- The book our mothers read -- Horatius at the bridge -- True courage -- The house by the side of the road -- The eagle -- The name of Old Glory -- The North American Indian -- The glove and the lion -- How sleep the brave? -- The bloodless sportsman -- An old Armenian gate -- Press onward -- A defense of teh crow -- Our national banner -- The builders -- Nature's song -- Hail to the harvest -- The wonderful one-hoss seat -- Portia's plea -- The sport of my life -- The ship of state -- The landing of the Pilgrims -- Courage -- A psalm of life -- My mind to me a kingdom is -- The barmicide feast -- The man that wins -- Books -- Leonainie -- A parable on brotherly love -- A thing of beauty -- A boy's song -- The legend of St. Christopher -- The sandpiper -- The man wihtout a country -- The seed growing secretly -- Spartacus to the gladiators -- On his blindness -- The rising in 1776 -- We seek for beauty -- Somewhere -- A call to arms -- Dare to do right -- The burial of Moses -- Service -- Think for thyself -- Truth -- The prodigal sopn -- We thank Thee -- The bishop and the convict -- A call to courage -- The Christ of the Andes -- Dear land of all my love -- Antony's oration -- Three gates of gold -- True dignity -- Lincoln, the great commoner -- Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud? -- Unweaponed peace -- For a that and a that -- Lo, the poor Indian! -- The vision of Sir Launfel -- My symphony -- The great stone face -- The shepherd psalm -- The Lord's prayer. ; authors: Samuel Francis Smith, C T Brooks, S H Hammond, David Starr Jordan, John G. Saze, George Washington, James T. Fields, Benjamin Franklin, J G Holland, William A McKeever, Thomas Hughes, Robert Browning, James Russell Lowell, George P Morris, Lydia Atery Coonley Ward, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sait Paul, MAL Lane, Alfred Tennyson, Samuel Wilberforce, William Cullen Bryant, John Ruskin, Henry Ladsworth Longfellow, Thmpson, PJ Stahl, George Hoar, Jphn greenleaf Whittier, Henry Van Dyke, Henry Holcomb Bennett, Elbert Hubbard, Robert E Lee, Charles A Dana, Francis Miles Finch, James Ball Naylor, Charles Kingsley, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Sam Walter Foss, James Whitcomb Riley, ;scarce ; FAIR. Book.…

Condition: New. An exploration of the career of Franz Radziwill, investigating the question of art in a Nazi context Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 898. . 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . . …

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Hardback. Condition: New. "Van Dyke has taken a risk and succeeded masterfully. His book means a major step to our understanding of the art world and the cultural politics during the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich. This case study, with its methodological approach, its close reading and contextualization, is a superb work and contributes to central debates about modernity and art history."---Olaf Peters, Department of Art History, Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg"James van Dyke has made a critically important contribution not only to German art studies, but also to the broader investigation---in history, literary studies, and cultural studies---of early twentieth century 'modernities.'"---Barbara McCloskey, University of Pittsburgh"Far more than a monograph on an individual painter, this carefully researched work of critical art history captures the complexities and paradoxes of culture during the Third Reich. James van Dyke's examination of Franz Radziwill---arguably the preeminent 'reactionary modernist' artist of the time---shows that success during the Weimar Republic did not preclude an attempt to find accommodation with the Nazi regime. Many modernist cultural figures sought to find a place in the Third Reich, and while this proved difficult, their experiences undoubtedly challenge the notion of a monolithic 'Nazi art.'"---Jonathan Petropoulos, author of The Faustian Bargain: The Art World in Nazi GermanyWhat was Nazi art? For the most part, we think of traditionally painted scenes of peasants plowing; blonde German girls with or without clothes; and heroically posed, square-jawed soldiers. When we think of modern art in Nazi Germany, we typically think above all of the infamous exhibition "Degenerate Art," which opened in Munich in July 1937. While these associations are not entirely wrong, the relationship between modern German art and National Socialism is considerably more complex than has generally been understood. In Franz Radziwill and the Contradictions of German Art History, 1919-45, James A. van Dyke tells the story of a well-known modern artist who regarded modernity and civilization with deep ambivalence during the 1920s and then for a time became a strong supporter of National Socialism. Radziwill's art, politics, and career are embedded in the debates about the definition of German art and state art policy in and after Hitler's rise. Challenging the monolithic view of "the Nazis," this book details how a painter could be championed by certain powerful National Socialists and be seen as a "degenerate" artist by others, how he could criticize the state and yet fight for the Fatherland, and how the unevenness of Hitler's state could foster hope and resistance even in a man who ultimately was deeply distressed by events.James A. van Dyke is Assistant Professor of Modern European Art History in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, and has published extensively on German modern art.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. How small details in the paintings of Otto Dix materialize the realities of a modern German artist. Offering a fresh look at German art during a period of extraordinary transition and precarity, James A. van Dyke focuses on overlooked but critically significant details in works completed by Otto Dix between 1919 and 1936. A small lump of paint, a monogram, an almost invisible self-portrait, the verso of a drawing, a patch of discoloration, and a web of fine cracksvan Dyke reveals such details, hidden in plain sight, as coded dialogue through which Dix addressed audiences and art-world insiders amid the combative world of cultural production in Weimar Germany. Sly, cutting, and provocative, these are the material traces of social relationships between the painter and those who represented threats to his professional ambition: an avant-garde mentor and rival, an increasingly skeptical critic, a prominent bourgeois photographer, and a local Nazi authority. Proving that small things offer insight into the big picture, this book highlights Dix's satirical, transgressive work as nuanced and polyvocal, reflecting the complex fields of power and economics in which the field of art is located. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Hardback. Condition: New. How small details in the paintings of Otto Dix materialize the realities of a modern German artist.   Offering a fresh look at German art during a period of extraordinary transition and precarity, James A. van Dyke focuses on overlooked but critically significant details in works completed by Otto Dix between 1919 and 1936. A small lump of paint, a monogram, an almost invisible self-portrait, the verso of a drawing, a patch of discoloration, and a web of fine cracks-van Dyke reveals such details, hidden in plain sight, as coded dialogue through which Dix addressed audiences and art-world insiders amid the combative world of cultural production in Weimar Germany. Sly, cutting, and provocative, these are the material traces of social relationships between the painter and those who represented threats to his professional ambition: an avant-garde mentor and rival, an increasingly skeptical critic, a prominent bourgeois photographer, and a local Nazi authority.   Proving that small things offer insight into the big picture, this book highlights Dix's satirical, transgressive work as nuanced and polyvocal, reflecting the complex fields of power and economics in which the field of art is located.…

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Condition: New. An exploration of the career of Franz Radziwill, investigating the question of art in a Nazi context Series: Social History, Popular Culture and Politics in Germany. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; ACX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 898. . 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …