6B: Neue Sachlichkeit: The Return to the Object
- Long, “The Critics and the ‘Demise’ of Expressionism,” 279 – 295.
- Sabine Eckmann “A Lack of Empathy. On the Realisms of New Objectivity” in New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919-1933, eds. Stephanie Barron & Sabine Eckmann (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015), 26 - 39.
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- New Objectivity as a “phenomenon of crisis”;
- some art and visual culture responded to social crisis;
- other objects represent a strong drive to materialism (cult of objects, culture of display);
- all unified in their approach to “mimetic representation” (i.e. realism);
- Verist approach to realism hostile to that of Expressionism.
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- Ute Eskildsen, “Germany: The Weimar Republic” in Illuminations: Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present, Liz Heron and Val Williams, eds. (Duke University Press: 1996), 53 – 64.
- KEY THEMES
- two strains of photography develop simultaneously: commercial & experimental;
- both shared an interest in the exactitude of the medium;
- responding to industry and increased use of photography in mass media;
- typologizing and photo essays.
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