Art of two Germanys--Cold War cultures /
Stephanie Barron and Sabine Eckmann, catalogue editors ; Stephanie Barron and Eckhart Gillen, exhibition curators ; essays by Stephanie Barron ... [et al.].
- 458 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Foreword / Michael Govan -- Blurred boundaries: the art of two Germanys between myth and history / Stephanie Barron -- Historicizing postwar German art / Sabine Eckmann -- Nationalizing aesthetics: revivals and rebuttals. Ruptures and continuities: modern German art in between the Third Reich and the Cold War / Sabine Eckmann ; The legacy of critical realism in East and West / Ursula Peters and Roland Prügel ; Expressionism and the two Germanys / Karen Lang -- The internationalization of German art. Dialectic at a standstill : East German socialist realism in the Stalin era / Barbara McCloskey ; Abstraction as international language / Susanne Leeb ;The leftist artist: visual art and its politics in postwar Germany / Diedrich Diederichsen -- Art, technologies, and the avant-garde. The art of a miracle : toward a history of German Pop, 1955-72 / Christine Mehring ; Symbolic revolts in the "workers’ and peasants’ state" : countercultural art programs in the GDR and the return of modern art / Paul Ka iser ; Photography as contemporary document : comments on the conceptions of the documentary in Germany after 1945 / Astrid Ihle ; Pause>rewind>play : video art in Cold War Germany / Lutz Koepnick -- Trauma, violence, and memory. Figures of memory in the course of time / Andreas Huyssen ; The art of barbarism and suffering / Richard Langston ; Repression and representation : the RAF in German postwar art / Peter Weibel ; The RAF and the phantom of terrorism in West Germany / Svea Bräunert -- Scenes from the theater of the Cold War of the arts / Eckhart Gillen -- Artists and artworks in the exhibition. Checklist of the exhibition -- Chronology : two Germanys, 1945-90.