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... unfairly associated with prostitutes. Otto Dix, a Neue Sachlichkeit artist, was aware of the postwar ambiguity between “respectable” and “fallen” women. In a watercolor of a veiled widow, Dix engaged the elision of prostitutes and widows by visually implying she has syphilis, a disease that caused...

...: Rizzoli, 1990), hereafter cited as FA; Alan Colquhoun, “Kritik und Selbstkritik in der deutschen Moderne,” in Moderne Architektur in Deutschland, 1900 bis 1950: Expressionismus und Neue Sachlichkeit, ed. Vittorio Lampugnani and Romana Schneider (Stuttgart: Hatje, 1994), 251–73; and Harry Francis...

... of leftist critics. In the preface to the second edition of his influential monograph New Objec- tivity (Neue Sachlichkeit, 1970), Helmut Lethen, for example, contends that I wish to thank Andreas Huyssen, Florian Kappeler, Jana Tschurenev, and an anonymous reader for New German Critique...

... hopes. Even a moderate version of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) was offered, under the label “New German Romanticism,”19 as a possible artis- tic option for the Nazi state and was supported by Nazi leaders like Rudolf Heß. 13. See Baumann, Wortgefechte; and Clinefelter, Artists...

... that technological progress predetermined Social Democracy.”27 Neue Sachlichkeit represented an optimistic modernity, preceding a more critical reading of pho- tography that could question its “reputation as truthful witness.” She continues: “The critique of rationality during the Weimar Republic expressed...

... as an important influence on the Neue Sachlichkeit photography of the 1920s. 50 The selection of photographs from a narrower range of sources than Pictures from Italy was also a factor in the German volume’s greater uniformity. Following Meydenbauer’s direction, photographers for the Prussian Institute...

... Sachlichkeit . Bielefeld : Transcript , 2011 . Lethen Helmut . “ Neue Sachlichkeit .” In vol. 9 of Deutsche Literatur: Eine Sozialgeschichte , edited by von Bormann Alexander and Glaser Horst Albert , 169 – 79 . Reinbek bei Hamburg : Rowohlt , 1983 . Lethen Helmut...

... as the German original suggests, which literally speaks of “utterances of the surface” (Oberfl ächenäußerungen)?16 To answer these questions, it is helpful to consider Kracauer’s opposition to the photographic paradigm of Neue Sachlichkeit—a realism often criticized for its naive epistemology—as well...

... and art history have shown clearly that the National Socialist period did not witness the complete erasure of the neue Sachlichkeit of the 1920s, despite a renewed prominence for more restorative and inward-looking styles and discourses in the 1930s.20 More broadly, and as a wealth of recent...

... and the Neue Sachlichkeit Move- ment,” in Germany: The New Photography, 1927–1933, ed. David Mellor (London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1978), 101–12; and Jan Brüning, “Kurzer Überblick zur Technik der Pressefoto- grafi e in Deutschland von 1920 bis 1940,” in Fotografi e und Bildpublizistik in der...

... to 1920s Neue Sachlichkeit photography, one of whose characteristics was an interest in repetitive or symmetrical structures as embodiments of the serial principle in production.36 These images also reanimate the principles of das Neue Sehen. The difference, of course, is that the utopian project...

... during the Weimar Republic. The contemporary discourse on Weimar masculinity is closely con- nected to the Neue Sachlichkeit and illuminates various strategies of asserting a strong-again masculinity against the identity crisis of men and women that dominated the time. Helmut Lethen...

... of Western civilization rooted in the failure of Germany to develop democratic institutions and a democratic Western-style culture, twentieth-century German art has often been seen as an anomaly within modernism. Neither expressionism, nor dada, nor Weimar’s Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) played...

... these examples to satisfy his programmatic dislike of the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Sobriety), a useful straw man with which also to dismiss modern architecture (SG, 19). Unlike his audience, for whom form was an inextricable part of their work, Adorno seemed to treat architectural and urban form as purely...

... and photographic paper, and of the wide-aperture lens and the fl ashbulb, resulted in a new and self-consciously modern photographic world. Buzzwords such as “New Seeing,” “New Vision,” “New Photography,” and the omnipresent neue Sachlichkeit (new sobriety) indicated a novel sense of visual purchase...

..., and Matthew Philpotts call this turning away from radical modernism “the mod- ern restoration,” and they argue that it occurred around 1930; however, the turn toward a more conservative, restorative cultural climate and away from expressionism had already begun by the mid-1920s, with the move to Neue...

..., Neue Sachlichkeit, nickelodeons, Kodak cameras, toys, and play (the problematic of play: the questions animated by the concept of play). Those conversations shaped my book into a patently Benjaminian exercise of imag- resuscitate (if not to rescue) his theory of film: “The sole purpose...

.... London: Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1975), 81–82. See also Simone Hain, “Ex Oriente Lux,” in Moderne Architek- tur in Deutschland 1900 bis 1950: Expressionismus und neue Sachlichkeit, ed. Vittorio Magnano Lampugnani and Romana Schneider (Stuttgart: Hatje, 1994), 133–60. 5. Rosemarie Bletter...

... Köpfe des Alltags of another Jewish photographer, Helmar Lerski. 27 And in the postwar era, the genealogy of typological photography includes the students of the postwar photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, known collectively as the Düsseldorf School, whose photography echoes the Neue Sachlichkeit...

... techniques of neue Sachlichkeit discovers beneath it a more fundamental philosophical maneuver proper to Adorno’s thinking 130 Adorno and Mann’s Californian Exile Between the Schock that encounters the real and the Protokoll that pre- sents that encounter, all intentionality evaporates...