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Compressed Utterances - Collage In A Germanic Context After 1912

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 The collage form is one of the best expressive forms to be taken up and experimented with by German artists since 1912. This volume of essays examines the use of collage by German-speaking artists, making in their homeland and abroad, whose works are closely connected to the tumultuous histories of Germany.
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Sites Of Interchange - Modernism, Politics And Culture Between Britain And Germany, 19191955

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 Early twentieth-century Germany was a site of extremes, in which cultural production was entangled in the swiftly changing political and economic landscape. Radical utopias and pragmatic solutions for life and culture were proposed, modernism embraced and dramatically rejected. Britain in the same period can seem comparatively stable, a nation wedded to established cultural forms in the face of social change. Yet throughout the period, there remained a lively interchange between the two countries. This collection of essays, by scholars working between Britain and Germany, elsewhere in Europe and in North America, looks anew at the complicated cultural relationship between Britain and Germany in the years between 1919 and 1955. It sets out to explore the connections between the two countries during this time in the fields of fine art and arts institutions, architecture, design and craft, photography, art history and criticism. It explores how practitioners in the two countries learned from and influenced each other, seeking to highlight the relevance of these interchanges today.
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Otto Dix And The First World War - Grotesque Humor, Camaraderie And Remembrance

by Michael Mackenzie

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 Otto Dix fought in the First World War for the better part of four years before becoming one of the most important artists of the Weimar era. Marked by the experience, he made monumental, difficult and powerful works about it. Whereas Dix has often been presented as a lone voice of reason and opposition in Germany between the wars, this book locates his work squarely in the mainstream of Weimar society. Informed by recent studies of collective remembrance, of camaraderie, and of the popular, working-class socialist groups that commemorated the war, this book takes Dixs very public, monumental works out of the isolation of the artists studio and returns them to a context of public memorials, mass media depictions, and the communal search for meaning in the war. The author argues that Dix sought to establish a community of veterans through depictions of the war experience that used the soldiers humorous, grotesque language of the trenches and that deliberately excluded women and other non-combatants. His depictions were preoccupied with heteronormativity in the context of intimate touch and tenderness between soldiers at the front and with sexual potency in the face of debilitating wounds suffered by others in the war.
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The Art Of War

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 War and trauma are fundamental human experiences and central to German history, especially in the twentieth century. This volume considers the multivalent aspects of art that responds to war, beginning with art conceived in response to the First World War and examining art and photography in the wake of the Holocaust and more recent conflicts.
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The Dada Archivist - Hannah Hoech, Kurt Schwitters And Berlin Dada

by Stina Barchan

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 «With astuteness and feeling, Stina Barchan captures the wonderful friendship between Hannah Höch and Kurt Schwitters and their artistic affinities. She deftly traces how each threaded together archival treasures and different forms of three-dimensional montage in their homes and workspaces to create living art in difficult times.» (Maud Lavin, Professor Emerita, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and author of Cut with the Kitchen Knife: The Weimar Photomontages of Hannah Höch) «Focusing on Hannah Höchs archive (rather than her artworks) and her post-Second World War activities (rather than the Dada period), Stina Barchan bypasses conventional approaches to the artist and compellingly argues that Höchs holistic approach to art and life in this period was among the most fundamentally subversive and radical of her career.» (Adrian Sudhalter, author of Dadaglobe Reconstructed) The archive of the German artist Hannah Höch (18891978) has long been an important source of material for historians researching the interwar avant-garde and artists associated with Berlin Dada. This book explores Höchs practices of organisation when assembling the documents in her house outside Berlin from 1939 until her death. Through extensive research, the author argues that Höchs archive should be considered not just a collection of documents but a work in its own right, intimately connected with the artists daily life. Noting the importance of understanding the mechanisms of this work, the book suggests that Höch took charge of both preserving and exploring the possibilities of Dada long after the group had been officially dissolved. The file that Höch assembled on her friend, the artist Kurt Schwitters (18871948), plays an important part in the book, its content revealing how domestic habits infused both artists practices. Juxtaposing Höchs archive and Schwitterss Merzbau, the author argues for an interactive movement between the two that has fundamental implications for how we understand both artists oeuvres.
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Compressed Utterances - Collage In A Germanic Context After 1912

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 The collage form is one of the best expressive forms to be taken up and experimented with by German artists since 1912. This volume of essays examines the use of collage by German-speaking artists, making in their homeland and abroad, whose works are closely connected to the tumultuous histories of Germany.
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Otto Dix And Weimar Media Culture - Time, Fashion And Photography In Portrait Paintings Of The Neue Sachlichkeit

by Anne Reimers

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 Otto Dix (18911969) was a leading figure of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement in painting in 1920s Germany. This groundbreaking study analyses for the first time in depth the relationship between Dixs verist-realist portrait paintings and the rapidly expanding mass media culture of the Weimar era. Focusing on a selection of portraits created in the first half of the 1920s, the book explores four specific aspects: the way in which Dix engaged with fashion and celebrity culture; how he responded to the challenge posed by photography; how he dealt with a situation where black-and-white reproductions were the most common medium through which diverse audiences encountered his work, and the ways in which Dixs career development ran in parallel with the commentary on his artistic production in journalistic and specialist media publications. Temporality, medium-specificity and reproduction are identified as concerns that drove his aesthetic responses to a historically specific environment. New archival material, letters and interviews by the artist, and a wide range of publications by art critics, cultural theorists and art historians of the Weimar era are drawn on to reveal new information about key paintings such as Self-Portrait with Nude Model (1923) and Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber (1925).
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A Medievalistâ€™S Gaze - Christian Visual Rhetoric In Modern German Memorials (1950â€“2000)

by Galit Noga-Banai

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 This study offers an unconventional reading of modern and postmodern German memorials from a medievalist perspective. Including but not limited to memorials for the victims of the Nazis in Germany, the book offers a medieval prism through which to view these works of art and understand their contribution to German memory culture.
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A Medievalists Gaze - Christian Visual Rhetoric In Modern German Memorials (19502000)

by Galit Noga-Banai

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 «This book makes a strong case that memorials are embedded in local visual and historical traditions. While its comprehensive and detailed references make it a must-read for specialists, it will appeal not only to the many specialists working on memory and memorials, but also to general audiences interested in questions of visual culture and memorialization. Beautifully and engagingly written and illustrated.» (Professor Harold Marcuse, University of California, Santa Barbara) This study offers an unconventional reading of modern and postmodern German memorials from a medievalist perspective. Beginning with a memorial for German soldiers in El Alamein and continuing with memorials for victims of the Nazis in Germany, the book challenges the visual differences between modern and medieval art and transforms the interactions between the two into six productive conversations. The examples discussed move from Christian themes or visual practice directly connected to medieval art in the surrounding local urban landscape, to secular or abstract projects that seem disconnected from premodern forms and formats. The wide variety of techniques, materials, iconography, layouts, and styles demonstrates that medievalism is a method of observation, one that can underscore the links between several works of art, offer a broader context, add layers of meaning, and explore relationships with nearby visual and social environments, physical and mental landscapes, conflicts and memories. The medieval association may also contribute to a projects potential to arouse empathy and to stand the test of time and distance from the events it is meant to recall. The books medieval prism will afford the reader greater insight into these works of art and a better understanding of their contribution to modern and contemporary memory culture in Germany.
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Disorders At The Borders - In Search Of The Gesamtkunstwerk In The Paintings Of Anselm Kiefer

by Matt Wates

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 Although Anselm Kieferâ€™s work is routinely compared with the Gesamtkunstwerk, the â€˜total work of artâ€™ pioneered by Richard Wagner, this book investigates the highly ambivalent relationship between these two artists. Their views on art and society, individualism and counter-Americanism are all explored.
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La Paella - Recipes For Delicious Spanish Rice And Noodle Dishes

by Louise Pickford

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 Enjoy the true taste of Spain and explore this fascinating countryâ€™s love affair with paella and the deliciously diverse ways in which rice and noodles are used in a multitude of unmissable dishes.
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The Noodle Bowl - Over 70 Recipes For Asian-Inspired Noodle Dishes

by Louise Pickford

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 Discover the vibrant tastes of Asia with over 70 authentic and creative recipes for cooking with noodles.
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Healthy Little Tummies - Plant-Based Food For The Whole Family

by Claire Power

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 Healthy and wholesome plant-based recipes for children to suit the whole family.
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Sinking Of The Antipodean

by Stanley A W Gyles

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 In August 1972, six young Australians and New Zealanders living in the UK decide on a whim to buy the wreck of an abandoned racing sloop, outfit it and sail it back to Australia.Only one had sailing experience and with little money, they set sail down the Thames using only a school atlas for navigation.This true story traces their experiences, adventure by adventure, learning the pitfalls of sailing the hard way at every turn and the mischief they created along the way.Their free-spirited antics will take you back to an era of freedom, true mateship, with a carefree attitude of anything goes
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Home Bird - Simple, Low-Waste Recipes For Family And Friends

by Megan Davies

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 Want to eat well, reduce food and packaging waste and save some money? Home Bird is here to help, going back to basics with seasonal, bold and wholesome recipes that are not only better for the environment but also your well-being and budget.
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Otto Dix And The First World War - Grotesque Humor, Camaraderie And Remembrance

by Michael Mackenzie

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 Otto Dix fought in the First World War for four years before becoming one of the most important artists of the Weimar era. This book takes Dixâ€™s very public, monumental works out of the isolation of the artistâ€™s studio and returns them to a context of public memorials, mass media depictions, and the communal search for meaning in the war.
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Five Spooky Pumpkins

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 Help your little one learn to count with this spooktacular board book. Lively text and humorous illustrations full of charm make this a perfect book to share at Halloween. With fun concentric pages and a unique pumpkin shape.
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Bedtime For Baby Sloth

by Danielle Mclean; Illustration: Sarah Ward

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 Baby sloth isn't ready for bed. First he needs to say goodnight to the moon. And then he needs to sing to the birds. And what about a snack? A beautifully illustrated book to share at bedtime.
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Badger And The Great Adventure

by Caroline Pedler e Suzanne Chiew

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 Tweet tweet! Three little birds have been parted from their flock, and the youngest has hurt her wing! Clever Badger builds a flying machine, and the friends set off on a thrilling adventure. But will they be fast enough to reach the other birds?
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Becoming Transgerman - Cultural Identity Beyond Geography

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 This book is a cutting-edge, interdisciplinary collection of essays by some of todayâ€™s most forward-thinking scholars. The contributors explore the ways in which the prefix Â«transÂ» erupts German identity and the identity of Germany itself. What are the promises and perils for Germany, and German identity, in becoming transGerman?
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Representations Of German Identity

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 This volume examines the multi-faceted nature of German identity through the lens of myriad forms of visual representation from the Middle Ages to the present. A broad spectrum of visual culture is considered â€" from painting to sculpture, advertising to architecture, film to installation art â€" to offer new insights into the â€˜German Questionâ€™.
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Emergency Noises - Sound Art And Gender

by Irene Noy

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 Art history traditionally concentrates on the visual, often at the expense of sound art. This book is about recent attempts by artists trained in (West) Germany to provoke listening experiences to awaken the ear. Their work is revolutionary in artistic terms and in what it reveals about human relations, especially concerning issues of gender.
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Emergency Noises - Sound Art And Gender

by Irene Noy

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 Art history traditionally concentrates on the visual. Sound has either been ignored or has been appreciated in a highly selective manner within a different discipline: music. This book is about recent attempts by artists trained in (West) Germany to provoke listening experiences to awaken the senses. Their work is revolutionary in artistic terms and in what it reveals about human relations, especially concerning issues of gender. The main focus of the book is to explore a gendered reading of the unity between the visual and the aural, a strand most prominently expressed within sound art in the period from the beginning of the 1960s to the 1980s. The book juxtaposes sources that have not been considered in conjunction with each other before and questions sound arts premise: is it a separate field or a novel way of understanding art? The study also opens up sound art to gender considerations, asking if the genre possesses the capacity to disrupt conventional, gendered role models and facilitate alternative possibilities of self-definition and agency across genders. Emergency Noises brings to light the work of underrepresented female artists and explores new intersections of sound, art and gender.
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Spectacle

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 How does the visual nature of spectacle destabilize the political, challenge aesthetic convention and celebrate cultural creativity? This interdisciplinary volume explores the concept of spectacle in the German context, including critical interventions into exhibitions, architecture, cinema and photography from the Baroque to the contemporary.
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