Solar Dance - Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty

Art dealer Otto Wacker¿s 1932 sensational trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs leads Eksteins to a unique narrative of a collapsing Weimar Germany, the rise of another misfit, Adolf Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt.

About the author

Modris Eksteins is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.

Summary

An acclaimed historian of the 20th century illuminates our current world, with its cults of celebrity and the crisis of the authentic. Solar Dance is a penetrating examination of legitimacy and truth, fakery and pretence--highly relevant to all of us today.

Product details

• Authors: Modris Eksteins, Eksteins Modris
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2014
• EAN: 9780674283985
• ISBN: 978-0-674-28398-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; History, Popular Culture, European History, Germany, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Art, Biography: historical, political and military, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General