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Bloomsbury Picturing Socialism: Public Art and Design in East Germany

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This history of the former German Democratic Republic's public murals reveals a barely known but visually and theoretically rich cultural legacy. It shows how art, craft, design and architecture made up the terrain of a sustained struggle between practitioners and political leaders. This was not the oft-assumed conflict between artistic freedom and political dogma. At stake was the self-identity of the socialist republic, and striking public murals functioned as the testing ground for East Germany's ideological formation and development. The visual arts in architectural spaces were not simply viewed as pedagogical tools, but were charged with defining fundamental differences between the East German state and its affluent capitalist neighbour, the Federal Republic. In the early 1990s many of artworks were dismantled or concealed in a direct political rejection of their socialist signification. Many others, falling into the categories of applied arts, were simply torn out because they were not comprehended to be art. This book traces the formal, functional and theoretical changes of the visual arts in urban space. It begins in the steel and coal cities of Stalinstadt and Hoyerswerda in the 1950s, where the first new workers' towns were constructed. The narrative continues in the new chemistry town Halle Neustadt, where in the 1960s the optimism for modernising socialism through science and technology under Walter Ulbricht found new artistic and architectural expression. At the start of the Eric Honecker era in the 1970s, East Berlin was made an international stage, and the traditional tropes of socialism were abandoned. The story closes at the Hanseatic port of Rostock and its suburbs where socialist art entered its own postmodern phase in the 1980s.

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Brand: Bloomsbury
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1350067148
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Graphic Arts
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 25 February 2021
Listed Since: 18 October 2019

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