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Jeanne Mammen Camilla Smith

Jeanne Mammen By Camilla Smith

Jeanne Mammen by Camilla Smith


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Jeanne Mammen: Art Between Resistance and Conformity in Modern Germany, 1916-1950 by Camilla Smith

Jeanne Mammen's watercolour images of the gender-bending 'new woman' and her candid portrayals of Berlin's thriving nightlife appeared in some of the most influential magazines of the Weimar Republic and are still considered characteristic of much of the 'glitter' of that era. This book charts how, once the Nazis came into power, Mammen instead created 'degenerate' paintings and collages, translated prohibited French literature and sculpted in clay and plaster-all while hidden away in her tiny studio apartment in the heart of Berlin's fashionable west end. What was it like as a woman artist to produce modern art in Nazi Germany? Can artworks that were never exhibited in public still make valid claims to protest? Camilla Smith examines a wide range of Mammen's dissenting artworks, ranging from those created in solitude during inner emigration to her collaboration with artist cabarets after the Second World War. Smith's engaging analysis compares Mammen's popular Weimar work to her artistic activities under the radar after 1933, in order to fundamentally rethink the moral complexities of inner emigration and its visual culture. While Mammen's artistry is considered through the lens of gender politics to reveal her complex relationship with the urbanisation of her time, this book also highlights the crucial role played by a lost generation of inner emigre women artists as agents of German modernity. The examination of Mammen's life and work demonstrates the crucial role women artists played as both markers and agents of German modernity, but the double marginalisation they have nonetheless encountered as inner emigres in recent history. It will be of interest to students of German studies, art history, literature, history, gender studies and cultural studies.

Jeanne Mammen Reviews

In this study, Camilla Smith wrests Jeanne Mammen from narratives of a sexually liberated Weimar culture and its fall to reveal a more compelling and complex artist. With both sensitivity and precision, Smith illuminates the complexities of Mammen's 'inner emigration'-the fine lines between non-conformism and dissent, camouflage and accommodation-followed by the risks and possibilities of post-war culture in Berlin. * Frederic J. Schwartz, Emeritus Professor of History of Art and Architecture, University College London, UK *
Beautifully illustrated and compulsively readable, Jeanne Mammen: Art Between Resistance and Conformity in Germany, 1916-1950 explores the dramatic life and multifaceted work of one of Europe's most innovative artists. Moving beyond the dazzling Glitter and Doom of Mammen's Weimar-era illustrations, Camilla Smith thematizes Mammen as an observer, artist, and translator, a woman alive to the possibilities of her age who lived through two world wars and negotiated her own inner immigration under the Nazi dictatorship. The is a thrilling new examination of an essential modernist artist whose significance has too long escaped scrutiny. * Elizabeth Otto, Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art History, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA *

About Camilla Smith

Camilla Smith is Associate Professor in Art History in the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, where she specialises in modern art, architecture and design in Germany and Austria. Her research into aspects of German modernism is published in leading journals such as New German Critique, Oxford Art Journal and Art History, and she has contributed to international exhibitions held in London, Berlin and Vienna.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Forging a Career Chapter 2: Berlin 1947 - Going Solo Chapter 3: National Socialism and Private Dissent Chapter 4: Propaganda, War and the Home Front Chapter 5: Beginning Again: Post-War Berlin Chapter 6: Bathtubs and Jellyfish: Mammen and Post-War Cabaret Conclusion Epilogue Notes Bibliography Appendices

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NPB9781350239388
9781350239388
1350239380
Jeanne Mammen: Art Between Resistance and Conformity in Modern Germany, 1916-1950 by Camilla Smith
New
Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2022-11-17
288
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