{"product_id":"otto-dix-and-weimar-media-culture-time-fashion-and-photography-in-portrait-paintings-of-the-neue-sachlichkeit-9781800791237","title":"Otto Dix and Weimar Media Culture: Time, Fashion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOtto Dix (1891–1969) was a leading figure of the \u003ci\u003eNeue Sachlichkeit \u003c\/i\u003emovement in painting in 1920s Germany. This groundbreaking study analyses for the first time in depth the relationship between Dix’s verist-realist portrait paintings and the rapidly expanding mass media culture of the Weimar era. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFocusing on a selection of portraits created in the first half of the 1920s, the book explores four specific aspects: the way in which Dix engaged with fashion and celebrity culture; how he responded to the challenge posed by photography; how he dealt with a situation where black-and-white reproductions were the most common medium through which diverse audiences encountered his work, and the ways in which Dix’s career development ran in parallel with the commentary on his artistic production in journalistic and specialist media publications. Temporality, medium-specificity and reproduction are identified as concerns that drove his aesthetic responses to a historically specific environment.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew archival material, letters and interviews by the artist, and a wide range of publications by art critics, cultural theorists and art historians of the Weimar era are drawn on to reveal new information about key paintings such as \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait with Nude Model \u003c\/i\u003e(1923) and \u003ci\u003ePortrait of the Dancer Anita Berber \u003c\/i\u003e(1925).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents: Inscribing Temporality, Containing Fashion: Otto Dix’s \u003ci\u003ePortrait of the Dancer Anita Berber \u003c\/i\u003eRecontextualised – «Material Verism»: Medium- Specificity and Haptic Effects in \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait with Nude Model \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003ePortrait Mrs Martha Dix\u003c\/i\u003e – Reproductive Optics: Otto Dix’s \u003ci\u003ePortrait of the Poet Herbert Eulenberg \u003c\/i\u003eand Painting in Reproduction – Otto Dix with «Retrospective Flavour»: The Language of Temporality and the Temporality of Language in the Print Media.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Lang International Academic Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042758328663,"sku":"9781800791237","price":53.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800791237.jpg?v=1750955501","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/otto-dix-and-weimar-media-culture-time-fashion-and-photography-in-portrait-paintings-of-the-neue-sachlichkeit-9781800791237","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}