Bernhard Heisig and the Fight for Modern Art in East Germany 1st Edition by April A Eisman ISBN 9781640140318 164014031X

Bernhard Heisig and the Fight for Modern Art in East Germany 1st Edition by April A Eisman- Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 9781640140318, 164014031X

Full download Bernhard Heisig and the Fight for Modern Art in East Germany 1st Edition after payment

Product details:

ISBN 10: 164014031X

ISBN 13: 9781640140318

Author: April A Eisman

One of the first books to extend the currently burgeoning scholarship on East Germany to the visual arts, revealing that painting, like literature and film, was a space of contestation.
East German studies today is thriving. Scholars have shown East Germany to be a complex society where culture played an important, if contested, role in the making of the socialist person. In English-language scholarship, however,the visual arts-and especially painting-have been largely ignored, the result of the misperception that East German art was little more than kitsch or propaganda. This book focuses on one of East Germany’s most successful artistsas a point of entry into the vibrant art world of the “other” Germany. In the 1980s, Bernhard Heisig (1925-2011) was praised on both sides of the Berlin Wall for his neo-expressionist style and his commitment to German history and art. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt chose him to paint his official portrait, major museums collected his work, and in 1989 he had a major solo exhibition in West Germany. After unification, Heisig was a focal point in the Bilderstreit, a virulent debate over what role East German art should play in the new Germany. Challenging current understandings of Heisig and East German art, this book focuses on Heisig’s little-known fight for modern art in EastGermany. Examining major debates of the 1960s, it shows the key role he played in expanding the country’s art from the limits of Soviet-style socialist realism to a socialist modernism that later gained recognition in the West.
April A. Eisman is Associate Professor of Art History at Iowa State University.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction: why Heisig matters

2. From the Nazi past to the Cold War present

3. Art for an educated nation

4. Against the wall: murals, modern art, and controversy

5. The contentious emergence of the “Leipzig School”

6. Portraying workers and revolutionaries

7. Conclusion: the quintessential German artist

People also search for:

 bernhard heiliger
    
bernhard häring
    
bernhard heisig artwork
    
bernhard haering bildhauer
    
bernhard heisig paintings

Tags: April A Eisman, Bernhard Heisig, Fight, Modern Art, East Germany