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(p.ii) Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism
Edward Dimendberg, Martin Jay, and Anton Kaes, General Editors
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- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
- Names: Potter, Pamela Maxine, author.
- Title: Art of suppression : confronting the Nazi past in histories of the
- visual and performing arts / Pamela M. Potter.
- Other titles: Weimar and now ; 50.
- Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press,
- [2016] | ”2016 | Series: Weimar and Now : German cultural criticism ; 50 |
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Identifiers: LCCN 2016005856 (print) | LCCN 2016007028 (ebook) |
- ISBN 9780520282346 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780520957961 (Epub)
- Subjects: LCSH: Arts and society—Germany—History—20th century. |
- National socialism and art. | Arts, German—20th century. | Art—
- Historiography.
- Classification: LCC DD256.6 .P68 2016 (print) | LCC DD256.6
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Edward Dimendberg, Martin Jay, and Anton Kaes, General Editors
1. Heritage of Our Times, by Ernst Bloch
2. The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany, 1890–1990, by Steven E. Aschheim
3. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook, edited by Anton Kaes, Martin Jay, and Edward Dimendberg
4. Batteries of Life: On the History of Things and Their Perception in Modernity, by Christoph Asendorf
5. Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of Surrealist Revolution, by Margaret Cohen
6. Hollywood in Berlin: American Cinema and Weimar Germany, by Thomas J. Saunders
7. Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption, by Richard Wolin
8. The New Typography, by Jan Tschichold, translated by Ruari McLean
9. The Rule of Law under Siege: Selected Essays of Franz L. Neumann and Otto Kirchheimer, edited by William E. Scheuerman
10. The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923–1950, by Martin Jay
11. Women in the Metropolis: Gender and Modernity in Weimar Culture, edited by Katharina von Ankum
12. Letters of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, 1900–1949, edited by Hans Wysling, translated by Don Reneau
13. Empire of Ecstasy: Nudity and Movement in German Body Culture, 1910–1935, by Karl Toepfer
14. In the Shadow of Catastrophe: German Intellectuals between Apocalypse and Enlightenment, by Anson Rabinbach
15. Walter Benjamin’s Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels, by Beatrice Hanssen
16. Exiled in Paradise: German Refugee Artists and Intellectuals in America from the 1930s to the Present, by Anthony Heilbut
17. Cool Conduct: The Culture of Distance in Weimar Germany, by Helmut Lethen, translated by Don Reneau
18. In a Cold Crater: Cultural and Intellectual Life in Berlin, 1945–1948, by Wolfgang Schivelbusch, translated by Kelly Barry
19. A Dubious Past: Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature after Nazism, by Elliot Y. Neaman
20. Beyond the Conceivable: Studies on Germany, Nazism, and the Holocaust, by Dan Diner
21. Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka’s Fin de Siècle, by Scott Spector
22. Munich and Memory: Architecture, Monuments, and the Legacy of the Third Reich, by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
23. The Ufa Story: A History of Germany’s Greatest Film Company, 1918–1945, by Klaus Kreimeier, translated by Robert and Rita Kimber
24. From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1870–1990, by Rudy Koshar
25. We Weren’t Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism, by Marsha Meskimmon
26. Culture and Inflation in Weimar Germany, by Bernd Widdig
27. Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany, by Janet Ward
28. Graphic Design in Germany: 1890–1945, by Jeremy Aynsley
29. Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy, by Timothy O. Benson, with contributions by Edward Dimendberg, David Frisby, Reinhold Heller, Anton Kaes, and Iain Boyd Whyte
30. The Red Count: The Life and Times of Harry Kessler, by Laird M. Easton
32. The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood, by Lutz Koepnick
33. Rosenzweig and Heidegger: Between Judaism and German Philosophy, by Peter Eli Gordon
34. The Authority of Everyday Objects: A Cultural History of West German Industrial Design, by Paul Betts
35. The Face of East European Jewry, by Arnold Zweig, with fifty-two drawings by Hermann Struck. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Noah Isenberg
36. No Place Like Home: Locations of Heimat in German Cinema, by Johannes von Moltke
37. Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture, by Peter Jelavich
38. Berlin Electropolis: Shock, Nerves, and German Modernity, by Andreas Killen
39. A Concise History of the Third Reich, by Wolfgang Benz, translated by Thomas Dunlap
40. Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration, 1955–2005, edited by Deniz Göktürk, David Gramling, and Anton Kaes
41. Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism, by Ehrhard Bahr
42. The 1972 Munich Olympics and the Making of Modern Germany, by Kay Schiller and Christopher Young
43. Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond, by Veronika Fuechtner
44. Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno, by Miriam Bratu Hansen
45. Siegfried Kracauer’s American Writings: Essays on Film and Popular Culture, edited by Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson
46. Metropolis Berlin, 1880–1940, edited by Iain Boyd Whyte and David Frisby
47. The Third Reich Sourcebook, edited by Anson Rabinbach and Sander L. Gilman
48. Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins, by Noah Isenberg
49. The Promise of Cinema: German Film Theory, 1907–1933, edited by Anton Kaes, Nicholas Baer, and Michael Cowan
50. Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts, by Pamela M. Potter