- 264 pages
- English
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About this book
This vibrant history of the former German Democratic Republic's public art reveals a barely known but visually and theoretically rich cultural legacy. Picturing Socialism shows how works of art and design in the urban spaces of East Germany were the site of a sustained struggle between practitioners, critics and political leaders. This was not the oft-assumed conflict between artistic freedom and political dogma; at stake was the self-identity of the republic as socialist. Art and its relationship to architecture functioned as the testing ground for East Germany's relationship to socialist realism and modernism against the backdrop of Cold War competition from the neighbouring Federal Republic.
Picturing Socialism makes a timely contribution to the recent groundswell of interest in the legacy of East Germany's art and architecture, illuminating and elucidating the public art which has been lost or remains under threat since unification in 1990.
Picturing Socialism makes a timely contribution to the recent groundswell of interest in the legacy of East Germany's art and architecture, illuminating and elucidating the public art which has been lost or remains under threat since unification in 1990.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Plates
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One Reconstruction, Art and Ornament (1945 to 1963)
- 1 Modernism, Realism and Muralism – the Struggle for Art in Post-fascist Germany
- 2 The Synthesis of Art and Architecture During the Transition to Industrialized Building
- Part Two Developing a Realist Modernism (1959 to 1973)
- 3 Reconceptualizing the Place of Art in the System-built Environment
- 4 New Socialist Landscapes and the Building of Halle-Neustadt
- 5 Expanding the Remit of Realism in the Public Art of Halle-Neustadt
- Part Three From the Monumental to the Unreal (1973 to 1990)
- 6 A Space of Pure Possibility: The X. Weltfestspiele and its Impact on Public Art
- 7 ‘Ultimately, Ordinary People Want to Have a Bit of Kitsch’: How Socialist Realism Looked Unreal
- Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- List of Interviewees
- Biographies
- Index
- Plates
- Copyright