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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Caught by Politics
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Exile and the Revaluation of High Art
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A Guide for Emigrants
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Popular Modernism and the Legacy of the Avant-Garde in Exile
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'Eckmann and Koepnick's anthology Caught by Politics is an innovative cross- cultural examination of the multiple paths of European exiles to the United States that offers new readings about the nature of modernism. By bringing together art history, architectural history, film and media studies the book seeks to complicate Adorno's familiar perspective of exile as an experience of loss, mourning, and rupture, and proposes instead that the exile's life in America provided the opportunity for new and creative ways to engage with modernist art and culture. Essays on Beckmann, Grosz, the Surrealists in the U.S and the reception of refugee artists reveal exilic art, architecture and film as a hybrid of multiple cultural influences and political agendas. The inclusion of provocative essays on architects Peter and Schneider, the horror films of Edgar Ulmer, and the career of actor Peter Lorre enrich this comparative study of what traditionally is divided as high and low. This book is an essential reading for any student of exile, modernism, and those interested in the complexity and nuances that complicate the canon.' - Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator of the Los Angels County Museum of Art and curator of Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany and Exiles and Emigres: The Flight of European Artists from Hitler
About the authors
LUTZ KOEPNICK is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Caught By Politics
Book Subtitle: Hitler Exiles and American Visual Culture
Editors: Sabine Eckmann, Lutz Koepnick
Series Title: Studies in European Culture and History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08032-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-7488-4Published: 08 June 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-08032-5Published: 23 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-6274
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6282
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 269
Topics: European Union Politics, Cultural History, Arts, Film History, Cultural Policy and Politics, Cultural Studies