Terrified by the close other: is the postwar history of German art ready to embrace "state functionaries"?

The article sets out to investigate the fundamentalproblem for the methodology of postwar German art history,namely, the unavoidable fusion of two markedly differentperspectives, i.e., those of East and West Germany, into acoherent narrative. The reconstruction of key exhibitions andcontroversies sp...

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1. Verfasser: Balisz-Schmelz, Justyna 1982- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2020
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Zusammenfassung:The article sets out to investigate the fundamentalproblem for the methodology of postwar German art history,namely, the unavoidable fusion of two markedly differentperspectives, i.e., those of East and West Germany, into acoherent narrative. The reconstruction of key exhibitions andcontroversies sparked by East German art, in 1989 and beyond,suggests that the revision of the canon of art history may befaced with greater challenges whenever adopting the perspectiveof the close Other (political or ideological), rather than thatof a remote Other (ethnic or cultural). The incorporation of theclose Other into a uniform narrative on art history can be a mootpoint, most notably in those cases where the western concept ofart calls for a necessary restatement, and one's identity needsto be critically redefined in the process. This is bestexemplified by what happened in Germany after 1989.
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ISSN:2190-3328
DOI:10.11588/riha.2020.0.76082

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