Art and Resistance in Germany

Deborah Ascher Barnstone is Professor of Architecture and Course Director for Undergraduate Studies at University of Technology Sydney, Australia.Elizabeth Otto is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Studies, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA.

• Introduction: Welcome to the Resistance!, Deborah Ascher Barnstone (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) and Elizabeth Otto (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)1. How Art Resists, Deborah Ascher Barnstone (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) and Elizabeth Otto (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)Art That Alters Worldviews2. Cut with the Kitchen Knife: Visualizing Politics in Berlin Dada, Patrizia McBride (Cornell University, USA)3. Existence-Minimum Architecture Walter Gropius’s Dammerstock, 1929, Kevin Berry (University of Pennsylvania, USA)4. Authority and Ambiguity: Three Sculptors in National Socialist Germany, Nina Lubbren (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)Art That Inspires Action5. Teach Your Children Well: Hermynia Zur Mühlen, George Grosz, and the Art of Radical Pedagogy in Germany between the World Wars, Barbara McCloskey (University of Pittsburgh, USA)6. Parting Shots: Ella Bergmann Michel’s Wahlkampf 1932 (Letzte Wahl), Jennifer Kapczynski (Washington University In St. Louis, USA)7. War Feeds its People Better: Meryl Streep, Brecht and the Limits of Revolutionary Theater, Noah Soltau (Carson-Newman University, UK)Art That Critiques Symbols8. Montage as Meme: Learning from the Radical Avant-Gardes, Sabine Kriebel (University College Cork, Ireland)9. On the Subversiveness of Two Silverpoints by Otto Dix, James van Dyke (University of Missouri, USA)10. A Whisper Rather than a Shout: Ursula Wilms and Heinz Hallmann’s Topography of Terror, Kathleen James-Chakraborty (University College Dublin, Ireland)Art That is Created in Acts of Resistance11. From Anti-Nazi Postcards to Anti-Trump Social Media: Resistance, Opposition, or Cold Comfort? Peter Chametzky (University of South Carolina, USA)12. Opera as Resistance: Helmut Lachenmann’s Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern, Joy Calico (Vanderbilt University, USA)13. Montage as a Form of Aesthetic Resistance Today: Marcel Odenbach and Thomas Hirschhorn, Verena Krieger (University of Jena, Germany)List of ContributorsBibliographyIndex

The content of the individual essays, and the remarkably strong apparatus of bibliographic documentation should render Art and Resistance a solid choice for libraries serving graduate-level programs in history, visual arts, political science, and German studies.