Imaging the Scenes of War : : Aesthetic Crossovers in American Visual Culture / / Christof Decker.
In American visual culture, the 1930s and 1940s were a key transitional period shaped by the era of modernism and the global confrontation of World War II. Christof Decker demonstrates that the war and its iconography of destruction challenged visual artists to find new ways of representing its cons...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | American Culture Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Trauma Narratives, Mixed Media, and the Meditation on the Invisible
- 2 Imaging Axis Terror: War Propaganda and the 1943 The Nature of the Enemy Exhibition at Rockefeller Center
- 3 In Search of a Common Vision: Ben Shahn, Photography, and The Family of Man Exhibition in 1955
- 4 Transnational Romance: Love and Politics in the Cinema of the 1930s and 1940s
- 5 Poetry and Film, Film as Poetry: Notes on a History of Creative Interactions
- 6 Screening Holocaust: American Television and the Discourse on ‘Victim Cultures’ in West Germany
- Index