The 1930s: The Making of "The New Man". Edited by Jean Clair, Member of the Academie francaise. (Ausstellung).

Language: English

Published by National Gallery of Canada, 2008

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396 Seiten; sehr zahlr., auch farb. Illustrationen; 30 cm; kart. Gutes Exemplar; der farb. illustr. Einband leicht berieben. - Englisch. - On the heels of the Roaring Twenties, the 1930s, which spanned from the economic crisis of 1929 to the outbreak of the Second World War, was a dark decade. Political regimes - authoritarian or totalitarian - came to power or were consolidated and guided by leaders who often inspired their names Francoism in Spain, Stalinism in the Soviet Union, National Socialism in Germany, and Fascism in Italy. Beyond similar governmental mechanisms, these regimes shared an ideology: the will to create what they called the "New Man." At one extreme, this took the form of social re-education and the elimination of the "bourgeois" classes (USSR); at the other extreme, a racialist policy of elimination of peoples declared "degenerate" as well as those whose lives were deemed "unworthy" (Germany). This ideology, which directly affected the images and portrayals of man, naturally reached into the world of art. The era was represented by a healthy, vigorous, athletic, sporting, "eugenic" man, while the avant-garde currents of expressionism and surrealism were banned. On the one hand, "eternal" examples of "unsurpassable" Greek beauty were evoked; on the other, representations deemed unhealthy or degenerate were denounced. This decade began with a more or less innocent dream of the theme of the original egg, germination, the harmonious growth of a fabric both biological and social, but ended with the nightmarish discovery of the corpses in the concentration camps by the armies of liberation in 1945. (Verlagstext) / INHALT : Lenders to the Exhibition --- Foreword --- Acknowledgements --- Crowds and Power: The Age of Dictatorships --- Jean CLair --- Already There but Yet to Come: The New Man in Germany, 1918-45 --- Eric Michaud --- The "New Man": Degeneracy and Regeneration --- Laura Bossi --- Science and Art in the 1930s - and Beyond --- Sander L. Gilman --- The Body Politic: Reality and Utopia --- Ann Thomas --- Crystal and Mud: Academic Approaches to Figurative Representation of the Body --- Philippe Comar --- Mario Sironi and Fausto Pirandello: Two Interpretations of the Idea of the "New Man" in the 1930s --- Claudia Gian Ferrari --- Life Distortions --- Didier Ottinger --- . Everything We Love Will Die. --- Constance Naubert-Riser --- Notes bibliographiques --- Catalogue --- 1 Genesis --- 2 "Convulsive Beauty" --- 3 "The Will to Power" --- 4 The Making of "The New Man" --- 5 Mother Earth --- 6 The Appeal of Classicism --- 7 "Faces of Our Time" --- 8 "Crowds and Power" --- 9 The Charnel House --- Artists' Biographies --- Bibliography --- List of Works --- Abbreviations. ISBN 9780888848536 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2000 Exhibition organized by Pierre Theberge.…

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The 1930s: The Making of "The New Man". Edited by Jean Clair, Member of the Academie francaise. (Ausstellung).
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Clair, Jean (Ed.):
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National Gallery of Canada
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2008
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