The ecstasy of battle : some German perspectives on warfare between modernism and reaction

Author

Midgley, David

Document type

Article (livre)

Language

English

Book title

Violent muse : violence and the artistic imagination in Europe, 1910-1939

Author (monograph)

Howlett, Jana (Editor, Collective Author); Mengham, Rod (Editor, Collective Author)

Source

Violent muse : violence and the artistic imagination in Europe, 1910-1939. 1994, 113-123

Publisher

Manchester University Press, Manchester (gbr)

Publication country

United Kingdom

Abstract (en)

On the ambiguities of response to war found inflected in different ways in the art and literature of Otto Dix, Ernst Jünger and Arnold Zweig, and interpretations in terms of modernist aesthetics by present-day critics.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Pictorial arts -- Painting and drawing -- Germany
• Dix, Otto, 1891-1969
• Jünger, Ernst, b.1895
• War
• Modernism
• Germany
• Aesthetics
• Zweig, Arnold, 1887-1968
• Painting
• Writings
• Representation
• Art
• Literature
• Art criticism

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Peinture et arts graphiques -- Peinture et dessin -- Allemagne
• Dix, Otto, 1891-1969
• Guerre
• Modernisme
• Allemagne
• Esthétique
• Zweig, Arnold, 1887-1968
• Peinture
• Ecrits
• Représentation
• Art
• Littérature
• Critique d'art

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19941001-00349077

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