Otto Dix and Weimar Media Culture : Time, Fashion and Photography in Portrait Paintings of the Neue Sachlichkeit. German Visual Culture ; 11

Sehr sauber und frisch erhalten, keinerlei Eintr�. List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgements xvii Introduction i CHAPTER I Inscribing Temporality, Containing Fashion: Otto Dix�s Portrait ofthe Dancer Anita Berber Recontextualised 15 CHAPTER 2 �Material Verism�: Medium-Specificity and Haptic Effects in Self-Portrait with Nude Model and Portrait Mrs Martha Dix 6 9 chapter 3 Reproductive Optics: Otto Dix�s Portrait of the Poet Herbert Eulenberg and Painting in Reproduction 149 chapter 4 Otto Dix with �Retrospective Flavour�: The Language of Temporality and the Temporality of Language in the Print Media 221 Conclusion 283 Bibliography, IndexVerlag: Otto Dix (1891�1969) was a leading figure of the Neue Sachlichkeit movement 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. Focusing 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. New 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 Self-Portrait with Nude Model (1923) and Portrait of the Dancer Anita Berber (1925). ISBN 9781800791237