Art Outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture

Elaine Kelly; Amy Wlodarski

doi:10.1163/9789401200400

Art Outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture

Elaine Kelly (Editor), Amy Wlodarski (Editor)

Edinburgh College of Art

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This collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of East German art, film, literature, music, and museum studies, seeks to renegotiate the artistic legacy of the German Democratic Republic. Combining a range of theoretical and practical perspectives, the volume challenges the narrow frameworks of totalitarianism and Ostalgie that have dominated discussions of art produced in the GDR. It explores the diversity of art produced in the state and contests the long-held perception that socialist realism and artistic innovation were mutually exclusive. Crucially, the collection puts art itself to the fore; GDR art is considered not simply as a political by-product, as is so often the case, but as an entity of innovation and aesthetic value in its own right.

Original language	English
Publisher	Brill Academic Publishers
Number of pages	298
ISBN (Electronic)	9789401200400
ISBN (Print)	9789042033412
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401200400
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2011

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Name	German Monitor
Publisher	Brill/Rodopi
Volume	74
ISSN (Print)	1875-7391
ISSN (Electronic)	0927-1910

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GDR
art
Cold War

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Kelly, E. & Wlodarski, A., 1 Jan 2011, Art Outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture. Kelly, E. & Wlodarski, A. (eds.). Brill Academic Publishers, p. 1-18 18 p. (German Monitor; vol. 74).
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