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Solar dance : Van Gogh, forgery, and the eclipse of certainty / Modris Eksteins.
LIBRA DD239 .E39 2012
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eksteins, Modris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890.
- Public opinion.
- Germany--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Germany.
- Intellectual life.
- Gogh, Vincent van, 1853-1890--Public opinion.
- Gogh, Vincent van.
- Wacker, Otto, 1898-1970.
- Wacker, Otto.
- Authenticity (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Art dealer Otto Wacker's 1932 sensational trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs leads Eksteins to a unique narrative of a collapsing Weimar Germany, the rise of another misfit, Adolf Hitler, and the replacement of 19th-century certitude with 20th-century doubt.
- Contents:
- The Issue 1
- Part 1 The Palette
- Vision 7
- Sky Aglow 9
- Sun on Suns 13
- Spring 28
- Dealer 34
- Aesthete 41
- Scribbler 45
- Madam 51
- Spirit 53
- Storm 59
- Phantasms 63
- Part 2 The Perspective
- Winds 73
- Fever 82
- Sodomia 88
- Sun Child 93
- Showtime 96
- Palace Revolution 98
- Stories 105
- Sailor Boy 113
- Certifiers 116
- Caveat Emptor 124
- Fame 127
- Source 131
- Alarum 134
- Alexanderplatz 138
- Coup 141
- Surreality 148
- Sensation 152
- Ravens 157
- Evidence 161
- Cela n est pas... 166
- Part 3 The Painting
- Present Sense 169
- Seance 171
- Scripts 173
- Sequence 179
- Etcetera 186
- Plus ça change ... 191
- Appreciation 195
- Experts 198
- Proof 200
- Soul 203
- Summations 205
- Sentence 208
- Appeal 210
- Part 4 The Response
- Synonyms 221
- Symbol 224
- Sophienstrasse 229
- Reaper 233
- Night Light 239
- Studio Sanary 244
- Crime Scene 248
- Part 5 The Effect
- Mender 259
- Scheherezade 262
- Wall 269
- Our Weimar 275
- Mania 279.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-320) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674065673
- 0674065670
- 9780674064942
- 0674064941
- OCLC:
- 758383655
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