The Exile of George Grosz - Modernism, America, and the One World Order

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List of contents

List of Abbreviations 
Acknowledgments 
Preface: Beyond Exile 
Introduction: Exile and the American Century 
1. Making an Exile Culture 
2. Exile and the One World Order 
3. Exile in the Age of Anxiety 
4. The Exile Returns 
Conclusion: Tears of the Clown 
Notes 
Selected Bibliography 
List of Illustrations 
Index

About the author

Barbara McCloskey is Department Chair and Associate Professor of Modern German Art at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published widely on the relationship between art and politics in German twentieth-century art, the visual culture of World War II, and artistic mediations of the experience of exile in the modern and contemporary eras. Her previous books include Artists of World War II and George Grosz and the Communist Party: Art and Radicalism in Crisis, 1918 to 1936.

Summary

Examines the life and work of George Grosz after he fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and sought to re-establish his artistic career under changed circumstances in New York. This book situates Grosz's American production specifically within the cultural politics of German exile in the United States during World War II and the Cold War.

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Mccloskey, Barbara Mccloskey, McCloskey Barbara
• Assisted by: Barbara Mccloskey (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.03.2015
• EAN: 9780520281943
• ISBN: 978-0-520-28194-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 210 mm x 260 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, Surrealism, History of Art, Drawing & drawings, Individual artists, art monographs, Art & Design Styles: Surrealism & Dada, Drawing and drawings