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Zusatztext '... well-written and beautifully produced. It has a generous set of colour illustrations of the artists under discussion.' Journal of Contemporary European Studies '... [an] imaginative and engaging work - a book that will be valuable to a wide audience including art historians and historians! other German studies scholars! and anyone with an interest in postwar German art - the reader is provided with more than twenty of the key images created by the six Cold War artists and their post-Wende students.' German History Informationen zum Autor Dr. Catherine Wilkins received her Ph.D. from Tulane University! and completed much of the research for this book while on an exchange fellowship from the Freie Universität Berlin. She is currently Professor of Humanities at Edison State College! USA. Klappentext Landscape Imagery! Politics and Identity in a Divided Germany! 1968-1989 explores the communicative relationship between German landscape painting and the viewing public that developed in the wake of the student revolutions of the late 1960s. The book demonstrates that! contrary to some historical thinking. Zusammenfassung Landscape Imagery, Politics and Identity in a Divided Germany, 1968-1989 explores the communicative relationship between German landscape painting and the viewing public that developed in the wake of the student revolutions of the late 1960s. The book demonstrates that, contrary to some historical thinking. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Introduction; Defining the culture and politics of a new generation; Revolutionary romantic landscapes; War memory and division; Gendering Germany in the 1970s and 1980s; Reconsidering religiosity in divided Germany; Conclusion; Post-script! post-wende; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
