We Weren't Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism - Softcover
Examines the work of some two dozen little-known women artists of the Weimar period in Germany. Meskimmon explores their work as part of Weimar's burgeoning Frauenkultur (women's culture) through which women negotiated central definitions of woman on their own terms.
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"This is an important book [and] has wide-ranging implications for any historian concerned with the balance of change and continuity and with the role and interpretation of Classical antiquity in art, in Renaissance studies and beyond."--"The Art Book
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Marsha Meskimmon is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art and Design at Loughborough University. Her books includeThe Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century (1996).
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- PublisherI.B. Tauris
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 1860642845
- ISBN 13 9781860642845
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages234
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Book Description Paperback. Marsha Meskimmon furnishes a fresh perspective on the art of women in the Weimar Republic and in the process reclaims the lost history of a number of artists who have not received adequate attention-not only because they were women but also because they continued to align themselves with the modes of realistic representation the Expressionists regarded as reactionary. Reconsidering the traditional definitions of German modernism and its central issues of race politics, eugenics, and the city, Meskimmon explores the structures that marginalized the work of little known artists such as Lotte Laserstein, Jeanne Mammen, Gerta Overbeck and Grete Jurgens. She shows how these women's personal and professional experiences in the 1920s and 1930s relate to the visual imagery produced at that time. She also examines representations of different female roles-prostitute, mother, housewife, the "New Woman" and "gar onne"-that attracted the attention of these artists. Situating her exploration on a strong theoretical base, she ranges deftly over mass visual culture-from film to poster art and advertising-to create a vivid portrait of women living and creating in Weimar Germany. MIssing title page, outer edges slightly bumped {"length"=>["24"], "width"=>["16"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}. Seller Inventory # 14306348
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