Deborah Ascher Barnstone - Art and Resistance in Germany

Visual Cultures and German Contexts

Series Editors

Deborah Ascher Barnstone (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

Thomas O. Haakenson (California College of the Arts, USA)

Visual Cultures and German Contexts publishes innovative research into visual culture in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, as well as in diasporic linguistic and cultural communities outside of these geographic, historical, and political borders.

The series invites scholarship by academics, curators, architects, artists, and designers across all media forms and time periods. It engages with traditional methods in visual culture analysis as well as inventive interdisciplinary approaches. It seeks to encourage a dialogue amongst scholars in traditional disciplines with those pursuing innovative interdisciplinary and intermedial research. Of particular interest are provocative perspectives on archival materials, original scholarship on emerging and established creative visual fields, investigations into time-based forms of aesthetic expression, and new readings of history through the lens of visual culture. The series offers a much-needed venue for expanding how we engage with the field of Visual Culture in general.

Proposals for monographs, edited volumes, and outstanding research studies are welcome, by established as well as emerging writers from a wide range of comparative, theoretical and methodological perspectives.

Advisory Board

Donna West Brett, University of Sydney, Australia

Charlotte Klonk, Humboldt Universitt Berlin, Germany

Nina Lbbren, Anglia Ruskin University, UK

Maria Makela, California College of the Arts, USA

Patrizia C. McBride, Cornell University, USA

Rick McCormick, University of Minnesota, USA

Elizabeth Otto, University at Buffalo SUNY, USA

Kathryn Starkey, Stanford University, USA

Annette F. Timm, University of Calgary, Canada

James A. van Dyke, University of Missouri, USA

Forthcoming Volumes in the Series

Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernisms Legendary Art School

edited by Elizabeth Otto and Patrick Rssler

Photofascism: Photography, Film, and Exhibition Culture in 1930s Germany and Italy

by Vanessa Rocco

Single People and Mass Housing in Germany and Beyond, 1850-1930: (No)Home Away from Home

by Erin Eckhold Sassin

Joman, Mein Covfefe, 2017, internet meme. Printed with permission of the artist.

If only the Fhrer knew! Banner flown during the marches in Wunsiedel, Bavaria in 2017. Rechts gegen Rechts.

George Grosz, Print XVI, Ecce Homo, 1922/23. Offset lithograph, 10.4 7.9 in., 26.4 20 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York. Estate of George Grosz, Princeton, NJ / VG Bild-Kunst. Copyright Agency, 2018.

Josephine Meckseper, RAF Tray, 2002. C-print (cebachrome), 20 16 in., 50.8 40.6 cm. The picture shows showing Meckseper as a cigarette girl (background) with her aunt, a member of the RAF, in the foreground. Josephine Meckseper / Courtesy Timothy Taylor London/New York.

Kthe Kollwitz, Die Freiwilligen (The Volunteers), 1922/23. Woodcut, 18.0 25.75 in., 47.5 65.4 cm. The print shows five volunteer soldiers who have all given their lives to the cause, with Kollwitzs son Peter in the upper left, in Deaths embrace. Woodcut. Museum of Modern Art, New York/Digital Image. The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA/Art.

Gustavo Aceves standing next to one of his horses in Lapidarium, in front of the Brandenburg Gate, 2015. Australscope.

A view from underneath the glass floor of performers, with audience above, Anne Imhofs Faust, 2017. ANSA.

Hannah Hch and Raoul Hausmann in front of their works at the First International Dada Fair, 1920. On the left is Hchs Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany, 191920. 2018 Berlinische Galerie / Foto: Kai-Annett Becker / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Hannah Hch, Schnitt mit dem Kchenmesser Dada durch die letzte weimarer Bierbauchkulturepoche Deutschlands, (Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada Through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany), 1919. Photomontage and collage on paper, 44.9 35.4 in., 114 90 cm. Photo: Jrg Anders. Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz (Nationalgalerie, Berlin)/Art Resource, New York. 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Detail of lower-right quadrant of Cut with the Kitchen Knife featuring the phrase Weltrevolution (World Revolution; undated picture). 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Detail of lower-right quadrant of Cut with the Kitchen Knife featuring the phrase Die groe Welt-Dada (The great Dada world).

Walter Gropius. Bedroom Dwelling Group 9, Siedlung Dammerstock, Karlsruhe, 19289. Photographer: Atelier Bauer. Credit: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Walter Gropius. Site plan of Siedlung Dammerstock, Karlsruhe, 19289. Credit: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Walter Gropius. Exterior view of Siedlung Dammerstock, Karlsruhe, 19289. Photographer: Adolf K. Fr. Supper. Credit: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Walter Gropius. Elevation, plan, and section of Dwelling Group 9, Siedlung Dammerstock, Karlsruhe, 19289. Credit: Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin. 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Oda Schottmller, Alraune (Mandrake), c. 1941. Photograph of Oda Schottmller dancing and wearing a mask of her own making Archiv Susanne und Dieter Kahl, Berlin.

Oda Schottmller, Studie zu einer Gartenskulptur (Study for a Garden Sculpture), undated (c. 1941). Plaster, whereabouts unknown. Archiv Susanne und Dieter Kahl, Berlin.

Hanna Cauer, Allegretto, 19356. Bronze, whereabouts unknown Bildstelle und Fotoarchiv Stadt Nrnberg.

Hanna Cauer, Nischenfigur (Niche Figure, or Moderato), 19356, exhibited at the Great German Art Exhibition, 1937, in Gallery 15 [at right]. Plaster, dimensions unknown, location unknown Stadtarchiv Mnchen, Fotosammlung; Photo: Georg Schdl, 1937.

Milly Steger, Kniende (Kneeling Woman), cast stone, 32 in. / 81 cm high; fragment of Kniende as it was discovered as part of the Berliner Skulpturenfund of 2010. Property of the German Federal Republic Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Museum fr Vor- und Frhgeschichte, Berlin; Photo: Achim Kleuker.

Milly Steger, Sinnende (Sitzende Figur) (Musing Woman [Seated Figure]), c. 1937. plaster, whereabouts unknown Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Mnchen, Fotoarchiv Hoffmann; Photo: Heinrich Hoffmann, 1937.

George Grosz, Der Dorfschullehrer (The Country Teacher) in Kleine Grosz-Mappe (Small Grosz Portfolio), 1917. Transfer lithograph, 8.25 5.5 in., 20.9 13.5 cm. Art Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

George Grosz, untitled illustration in Bruno Schnlank, Sonniges Land (Sunny Land), Berlin: Paul Cassirer Verlag, 1920. Art Estate of George Grosz / Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.

George Grosz, cover illustration for Hermynia Zur Mhlen,