The aesthetics of loss : German women's art of the First World War / Claudia Siebrecht.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white, and colour).Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780191744563 (ebook) :.Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- Germany -- Art and the war | Women artists -- Germany -- History -- 20th centuryAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199656684DDC classification: 704.949940343 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: An examination of German women's art produced during the First World War that places the artists' visual responses within the civilian war experience. The book traces the thematic evolution of women's art from visual expressions of support for the national war effort to more nuanced and distraught representations of grief over wartime death.Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
An examination of German women's art produced during the First World War that places the artists' visual responses within the civilian war experience. The book traces the thematic evolution of women's art from visual expressions of support for the national war effort to more nuanced and distraught representations of grief over wartime death.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 5, 2013).