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“The Great Imitator”: Syphilis and Clandestine Prostitution in Otto Dix’s Die Witwe Watercolors
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New German Critique (2018) 45 (2 (134)): 33–66.
Published: 01 August 2018
... 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...
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Modernism Reconsidered: The Kultur-Zivilisation Dichotomy in the Work of Adolf Rading
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (3 (108)): 39–71.
Published: 01 November 2009
...: 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...
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Aesthetics, Masses, Gender: Anna Seghers's Revolt of the Fishermen of St. Barbara
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (1 (124)): 163–188.
Published: 01 February 2015
... 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...
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From “Degenerate Art” To “Looted Art”: Developments and Consequences of National Socialist Cultural Policy
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (1 (130)): 9–33.
Published: 01 February 2017
... 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...
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First as Tragedy, Second as Farce: Heartfield's Photomontages and the Engaged Viewer
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New German Critique (2017) 44 (2 (131)): 25–40.
Published: 01 August 2017
... 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...
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Die Schöne Heimat ? Depictions of Germany in a Popular Photobook from the Second Empire to the Federal Republic
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New German Critique (2019) 46 (2 (137)): 35–63.
Published: 01 August 2019
... 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...
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The Last Dwelling before the Last: Siegfried Kracauer’s Critical Contribution to the Modernist Housing Debate in Weimar Germany
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New German Critique (2020) 47 (3 (141)): 99–140.
Published: 01 November 2020
... 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...
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Beyond Realism: Siegfried Kracauer and the Ornaments of the Ordinary
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 99–118.
Published: 01 February 2010
... 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...
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Cultural-Political Palimpsests: The Reich Aviation Ministry and the Multiple Temporalities of Dictatorship
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (3 (117)): 207–230.
Published: 01 November 2012
... 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...
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Berlin in Pictures: Weimar City and the Loss of Landscape
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (1 (109)): 1–25.
Published: 01 February 2010
... 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...
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Photography/Topography: Viewing Berlin, 1880/2000
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New German Critique (2012) 39 (2 (116)): 25–45.
Published: 01 August 2012
... 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...
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Billy Wilder's Work as Eintänzer in Weimar Berlin
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New German Critique (2013) 40 (3 (120)): 65–84.
Published: 01 November 2013
... 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...
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German Painting in the Cold War
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New German Critique (2010) 37 (2 (110)): 209–227.
Published: 01 August 2010
... 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...
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Adorno’s “Urbanism and Societal Order” and the State of Rebuilding West Germany, 1949
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 1–31.
Published: 01 February 2024
... 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...
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Manufacturing Discontent: John Heartfield's Mass Medium
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New German Critique (2009) 36 (2 (107)): 53–88.
Published: 01 August 2009
... 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...
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The Postwar Restoration in East and West
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New German Critique (2015) 42 (3 (126)): 69–90.
Published: 01 November 2015
..., 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...
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The Work of Play: Experiencing Cinema
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New German Critique (2014) 41 (2 (122)): 145–157.
Published: 01 August 2014
..., 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...
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Toward a Cosmopolitan Ethics in Architecture: Bruno Taut's Translations out of Germany
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New German Critique (2006) 33 (3 (99)): 7–39.
Published: 01 November 2006
.... 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...
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Reconsidering Photographic Temporality through Piotr Uklański’s Nazis
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New German Critique (2024) 51 (1 (151)): 143–171.
Published: 01 February 2024
... 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...
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Der Fall Faustus: Continuity and Displacement in Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno and Thomas Mann's Californian Exile
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New German Critique (2007) 34 (1 (100)): 111–139.
Published: 01 February 2007
... 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...
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