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• Title:[Inventur (Harvard Art Museums)]
  Inventur : art in Germany, 1943-55 / edited by Lynette Roth ; with Ilka Voermann ; additional contributions by Samuel Adams, Olivia Crough, Caitlin Dalton, Raphael König, Jungmin Lee, Yelizaveta Sorokin, Andrea von Hedenström, Sean Wehle, Joanna Wendel, and Robert Wiesenberger.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Roth, Lynette, editor.
  Voermann, Ilka, contributor.
  Harvard Art Museums, host institution, organizer.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Art Museums, 2018.
  New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: N6868 .I62 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art, German--Germany (West)--Exhibitions.
  Art and society--Germany (West)--Exhibitions.
  
• Description:427 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
  
• Summary:As Germany went through a period of intense physical and moral stocktaking in the wake of World War II, the country's artists responded by creating highly charged works and engaging in heated debates about artistic practice and its relationship to the reestablishment of a new national identity. This long-overdue examination of German art from the immediate postwar period includes case studies of nearly fifty artists working in a variety of media ranging from small-scale drawings and collages to large, colorful canvases and industrial products. Insightful essays delve into Willi Baumeister's wartime lacquer experiments, Louise Roesler's abstract ruinscapes, and Arno Fischer's photographs of a divided Berlin, revealing Germany's surprisingly generative and pluralistic artistic culture. With a title taken from a 1945 poem by Gunter Eich, this important book provides a fresh perspective on a largely overlooked corpus of works--some published here for the first time--and is a valuable contribution to our understanding of 20th-century German art.00Exhibition: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, USA (09.02-03.06.2018).
  
• Notes:"This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Inventur-Art in Germany, 1943-55, on view at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, from February 9 through June 3, 2018."
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-420) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781891771743 Harvard Art Museums ; alkaline paper
  1891771744 Harvard Art Museums ; alkaline paper
  9780300229202 Yale University Press ; alkaline paper
  0300229208 Yale University Press ; alkaline paper
  
• Contents:Inventur-Art in Germany, 1943-55 / Lynette Roth
  "An Absolutely Unknown Aspect of Modern Art" : The U.S. Reception of Postwar German Art in the 1950s / Ilka Voermann
  Catalogue Entries
  Key Exhibitions, 1945-55.