Caught by politics : Hitler exiles and American visual culture / edited by Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick.

Other author Eckmann, Sabine.
Other author Koepnick, Lutz P. (Lutz Peter)
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Descriptionviii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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SeriesStudies in European culture and history
Studies in European culture and history. ^A597861
Contents Introduction: caught by politics / Sabine Eckmann and Lutz Koepnick. Pt. 1. Exile and the revalution of fine art. Max Beckmann in California: exile, memory, and renewal / Françoise Forster-Hahn -- Exile for hire: George Grosz in Dallas / Barbara McCloskey -- "With eyes wide open": the American reception of surrealism / Angela Miller -- German exile, modern art, and national identity / Sabine Eckmann. Pt. 2. A guide for emigrants. "You know, this isn't bad advice!!" / Renata Smith and Frieder Schnock. Pt. 3. Popular modernism and the legacy of the avant-garde in exile. Peters and Schneider: the drawing board as home / Iain Boyd Whyte -- Permanent vacation: home and homelessness in the life and work of Edgar G. Ulmer / Noah Isenberg -- Mad love: re-membering Berlin in Hollywood exile / Lutz Koepnick -- Hans Richter in exile: translating the avant-garde / Nora M. Alter.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [245]-252) and index.
LCCN 2006051377
ISBN1403974888 (alk. paper)
ISBN9781403974884