Whose East German Art is This? The Politics of Reception after 1989
April A. Eisman
Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies · 2018
doi:10.17742/image.gdr.8-1.6 (opens in a new tab)
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Abstract
Abstract | Beginning with an overview of painting in East Germany, this article examines the German-German Bilderstreit (image battle) of the long 1990s and two major art exhibitions in the new millenium, Kunst in der DDR (Art in the GDR, 2003) and Abschied von Ikarus(Farewell to Icarus, 2012-13). It ultimately argues that the history of East German art has been rewritten since unification in ways that reflect Western expectations and desires more than socialist realities, and shows how art historians, scholars of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany), and those seeking alternatives to the neoliberal present can benefit from a less biased view. Résumé | Commençant par un résumé de la peinture en Allemagne de l’Est, cet essai examine la bataille de l’image allemande-allemande dans des longues années 1990 et deux grandes expositions d’art dans le nouveau millénaire, Kunst in der DDR (L’Art en la RDA, 2003) et Abschied von Ikarus (Adieu à Icarus. 2012-13). Il fait valoir en fin de compte que l’histoire de l’art est-allemand a été réécrit depuis l’unification d’une manière qui reflète les attentes et désirs occidentales plus des réalités socialistes, et montre comment les historiens de l’art, les chercheurs de la RDA, et ceux qui cherchent des alternatives au présent néolibéraux peuvent bénéficier d’une perspective moins préjugé.
Abstract licence: CC BY-NC-ND
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