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The culture of the case : madness, crime, and justice in modern German art
- Title
- The culture of the case : madness, crime, and justice in modern German art / Frederic J. Schwartz.
- Author
- Schwartz, Frederic J., 1963-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
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Details
- Description
- 423 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm
- Summary
- "An exploration and analysis of the disturbing Lustmord images - graphic representations of sexual murder - by artists such as George Grosz, Otto Dix, Rudolph Schindler, and more generally of the interelationship between art and criminality in early 20th-century Germany and Austria"--
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Art and society > Germany > History > 20th century
- Art and society > Austria > History > 20th century
- Crime in art
- Art, German > 20th century > Themes, motives
- Art, Austrian > 20th century > Themes, motives
- Art and society
- Art, Austrian > Themes, motives
- Art, German > Themes, motives
- Austria
- Germany
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Architecture and Crime: Adolf Loos and The Culture of The Case -- Madness, Expressionism, and the Public Sphere From Oskar Panizza to George Grosz -- Lustmord: Mapping the Public Sphere -- Politics and "Perversion": The Cases of Rudolf Schlichter -- Paper, Scissors, Photograph: Bertolt Brecht and the Culture of the Case.
- Call Number
- N72.S6
- ISBN
- 9780262047708
- 0262047705
- LCCN
- 2022017781
- 40031836035
- OCLC
- on1341261333
- 1341261333
- SCSB-14615589
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries