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Title
The image of the soldier in German culture, 1871-1933
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Fox, Paul (Art historian) (Author)
Subject
Germany--History, Military--Historiography (LCSH)
Soldiers in art (LCSH)
Soldiers--Germany--History (LCSH)
Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871--Art and the war (LCSH)
World War, 1914-1918--Art and the war (LCSH)
Masculinity in art (LCSH)
Militarism--Germany (LCSH)
Language
English
Geographic Coverage
Germany
Classification
LCC: DD101.5 .F69 2018
DDC: 704.9/4994308 full
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Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Summary
"This study examines the force of tradition in conservative German visual culture. It explores thematic continuities in the post-conflict representation of battlefield identities, from the 25th anniversary of the Franco-Prussian War in 1895 to the demise of the Weimar Republic in 1933. Using 40 carefully chosen images from both high and low culture, Paul Fox discusses complex and interdependent responses in German visual culture to a wide spectrum of operational military experience. These include regional conflict, total war, internal security operations and border skirmishes during the period. The book demonstrates how conservative artists, illustrators, photographers, and sculptors engaged in representing this full spectrum of conflict were preoccupied with the inequalities of battlefield encounters and the consequential quest for moral advantage. They furnished material that exemplified everything positive the ideal German male could hope to be when at war - even when the outcome was defeat. Their construction of an imagined martial masculinity based on an aggressive moral superiority was so deeply rooted that the continuities taken forward eventually provided a basis for a programmatic imagining of how Germany might again exert its political presence as a great military power in Central Europe after 1918. The Image of the Soldier in German Culture, 1871--1933 is an important volume for any historian interested in cultural history, the history of modern Germany or the First World War."--Provided by publisher.
Table Of Contents
Representing armed conflict in the industrial age
Adolph Menzel and the rhetoric of command
Combat and the politics of border landscapes : soldier-farmers
Combat and the politics of landscape : trench warfare
Combat and the politics of landscape : aerial photography, maps, and the cold gaze
Technology and combat in the Franco-Prussian war
Technology and combat in the First World War
Conclusion.
Authorized Access Point
Fox, Paul (Art historian) The image of the soldier in German culture, 1871-1933
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Creation Date: 2017-10-20
Description Language: English
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