Art Outside the Lines
：New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture
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Publication subTitle ：New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture
Publication series ：1
Author： Kelly Elaine;Wlodarski Amy
Publisher： Brill
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9789401200400
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9789042033412
Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation
Keyword： 文学评论、文学欣赏,世界文学
Language： ENG
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Description
This collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of East German art, film, literature, music, and museum studies, seeks to renegotiate the artistic legacy of the German Democratic Republic. Combining a range of theoretical and practical perspectives, the volume challenges the narrow frameworks of totalitarianism and Ostalgie that have dominated discussions of art produced in the GDR. It explores the diversity of art produced in the state and contests the long-held perception that socialist realism and artistic innovation were mutually exclusive. Crucially, the collection puts art itself to the fore; GDR art is considered not simply as a political by-product, as is so often the case, but as an entity of innovation and aesthetic value in its own right.
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