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Title Neue Sachlichkeit and avant-garde / edited by Ralf Grüttemeier, Klaus Beekman and Ben Rebel
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (387 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Avant garde critical studies, 1387-3008 ; 29
Avant garde critical studies ; 29.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Neue Sachlichkeit and Avant-Garde. An Introduction; I. Neue Sachlichkeit and the Discourse on Modernity; Challenging the Autonomous Realm of Literature: Nieuwe Zakelijkheid and Poetry in the Dutch Literary Field; "Yesterday Art Today Reality". The Discourse on Neue Sachlichkeit in i 10; Rietveld and Nieuwe Zakelijkheid in Architecture; Nieuwe Zakelijkheid as Positioning Strategy: The Case of Albert Helman; II. The International and Intermedial Dimension of Neue Sachlichkeit
The Appearance and Disappearance of the Term Nieuwe Zakelijkheid in Dutch Modern ArchitectureThe Terms Nieuwe Zakelijkheid, Neue Sachlichkeit and Nieuw Realisme in Art Criticism of the Dutch paper De Groene Amsterdammer; Neue Sachlichkeit, Mass Media and Matters of Musical Style in the 1920s; "A book such as 'Automobile' is only written once in a lifetime". Ilja Ehrenburg's The life of the automobile as benchmark in the discussion of New Objectivity in Dutch literature; The Function of Ilja Ehrenburg Concerning the Dutch prose of the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid
Continuity Through 'Inner Emigration': Neue Sachlichkeit, National Socialism, and Aspects of the Work of Otto Dix 1933-1935III. Neue Sachlichkeit and Avant-Garde; Concepts of the Subject in the Avant-Garde Movements of the 1910s and Neue Sachlichkeit; The Reception of Neue Sachlichkeit among Dutch Authors and Critics; Objectivity and Emotion, the Challenge of the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid: Albert Kuyle As a Test Case; New Objectivity in the Work of the Russian-German Artist Nikolai Zagrekov / Nikolaus Sagrekow; Aleksei Gan's Constructivism and its aftermath
Summary One of the aims of the book is to shed more light on the notion Neue Sachlichkeit in its appearance in a variety of fields as painting, architecture, music, photography and literature, in order to get a clearer idea of its scope. Several contributions will do so by analysing the heterogeneity in the use of the term concerning its function in the fight for recognition in the art-fields around 1930 - in other words, Neue Sachlichkeit will be analysed as a positioning strategy. Especially its participation in the broader discourse on modernity, as well as its international and intermedial dimensi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Neue Sachlichkeit (Art)
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Neue Sachlichkeit.
ART -- History -- General.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Neue Sachlichkeit (Art)
Form Electronic book
Author Grüttemeier, Ralf, 1961-
Beekman, K.
Rebel, Ben.
LC no. 2013380271
ISBN 940120909X
9789401209090