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Dark lens : imaging Germany, 1945 / Françoise Meltzer.
LIBRA D810.D6 M38 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meltzer, Françoise, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Aerial operations, Allied.
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Influence.
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Psychological aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Photography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Germany--Art and the war.
- Ruins, Modern--Germany.
- Ruins, Modern.
- Ruins in art.
- Civilians in war--Germany.
- Civilians in war.
- World War, 1939-1945--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Destruction and pillage.
- Ethics.
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Photography.
- Psychological aspects.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 240 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "This book draws on literature, painting, and a never-before-seen cache of photographs to explore the representation of catastrophe and the targeting of civilians in war. Focusing on images of Nazi Germany's bombed-out cities, the author connects the fraught aesthetics of ruins with the problem of how to acknowledge German suffering."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- What I remember
- By way of beginning
- When words fail: writing disaster
- Ruination in painting: making the unspeakable visible
- Through a lens, darkly: texts and images
- Suffering and victimization
- Foregone and other conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226625638
- 022662563X
- OCLC:
- 1088606174
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