Research Catalog

Title

The image of the soldier in German culture, 1871-1933 / Paul Fox.

Author

Fox, Paul (Art historian)

Publication

• London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Description

xi, 224 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

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.

Series Statement

A modern history of politics and violence

Uniform Title

Modern history of politics and violence.

Subjects

• Soldiers
• Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 > Art and the war
• Art
• Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
• Historiography
• World War (1914-1918)
• Soldiers in art
• Masculinity in art
• History
• 1870-1918
• Soldiers > Germany > History
• Germany > History, Military
• World War, 1914-1918 > Art and the war
• Militarism > Germany
• Military history

Genre/Form

• Art.
• History.
• Military history.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-217) and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 18-3932

ISBN

• 9781474226141
• 1474226140

LCCN

2017025352

OCLC

1007497958

Author

Fox, Paul (Art historian), author.

Title

The image of the soldier in German culture, 1871-1933 / Paul Fox.

Publisher

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

A modern history of politics and violence

Modern history of politics and violence.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [209]-217) and index.

Chronological Term

1870-1918

Other Form:

Online version: Fox, Paul (Art historian). Image of the soldier in German culture, 1871-1933. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2018] 9781474226158 (DLC) 2017050876

Research Call Number

JFE 18-3932