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Documenta : politics and art
Title
Documenta : politics and art / edited by Raphael Gross with Lars Bang Larsen, Dorlis Blume, Alexia Pooth, Julia Voss and Dorothee Wierling for the Deutsches Historisches Museum.
ISBN
9783861022237
3861022230
9783861022220
3861022222
9783791379203
3791379208
9783791379197
3791379194
Publication
[Berlin] : Deutsches Historisches Museum ; Munich ; London ; New York : Prestel, [2021]
Manufacture
[Kempten, Germany] : Eberl & Kaesel GmbH und Co., Krugzell
Copyright Notice Date
©2021
Physical Description
335 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Notes
"An exhibition of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, 18.6.2021 to 9.1.2022"--Page 334.
Summary
"From 1955 onwards, the makers of each documenta sought to offer insights into current trends in art and to document the spirit of their particular time. This publication sets the history of documenta in the context of the political, cultural and socio-historical development of the Federal Republic of Germany in the second half of the twentieth century. It thereby illuminates a relationship of mutual dependence between art and history. Time and time again, this major international exhibition was a place where West Germany's perception of itself was negotiated. From the very beginning, progressive and regressive political currents were active there side to side"--Page 4 of cover.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 27, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-295) and index.
Contents
1. Prologue. Documenta in its times: a chronology / Dorothee Wierling ; Interview with Lorenz Dombois ; How documenta 1955 almost never happened. The history of events leading to the most successful German art exhibition and how it came about / Julia Voss ; Interview with Heiner Georgsdorf ; Objects from the exhibition ; Biography of Arnold Bode ; Mending the rift with art. Traces of National Socialism in the first documenta / Julia Friedrich
2. Documenta and National Socialism. The Werner Haftmann model. How documenta became a platform for the politics of memory / Julia Voss ; Biography of Werner Haftmann ; Who founded documenta? Tracing the Nazi past in the biographies of the organisers of documenta Exhibitions 1-4 / Mirl Redmann ; Objects of the exhibition ; Biography of Emy Roeder
3. The Cultural and Political Programme of 'The West'. Liberty bells. The cultural and political programme of 'the West' at documenta / Lars Bang Larsen ; Biography of Porter Alexander McCray ; The Americanisation of documenta. The Museum of Modern Art in Kassel / Birgit Jooss ; Objects from the exhibition ; Interview with Chris Reinecke ; Biography of Harald Szeemann ; Interview with Catherine David
4. The 'East' as the Other of the Modern. Freedom versus repression. The 'East' as the other of the modern / Alexia Pooth ; Interview with Judy Lybke ; Objects from the exhibition ; Interview with Gerhard Richter ; Biography of Manfred Schneckenburger ; Biography of Lothar Lang ; Not quite at home? Eastern European artists at documenta Exhibitions 1-10 / Klara Kemp-Welch
5. Documenta: Event and Institution. Visitors, communication, financing / Dorothee Wierling ; Interview with Hans Eichel ; Interview with Ingeborg Lüscher ; Objects from the exhibition ; Interview with Bazon Brock ; 'Art understanding, economics, and business acumen': documenta and the art market / Mela Dávila Freire ; Interview with Rudolf Zwirner
6. Artistic Research. Interview with Loretta Fahrenholz
Appendix.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Also listed under
Deutsches Historisches Museum, host institution.
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