The Proletarian Dream Socialism, Culture, and Emotion in Germany 1863-1933

struggle and individual handsturninginto fists,respectively–confirms once more the importance of (gendered) embodimentsinthe mak ...

The fault lines separatingpolitical and artisticavant-gardes have often been examined through the latter’srepresentational strat ...

logne Progressivesinthese terms.⁶Their rejection of sentiment and pathos did by no means signal emotional detachment or,still le ...

men in the front have individual facial features,while the increasingly smaller and faceless heads in the background suggest ala ...

Objectivity.Establishingapredominantlymale iconographyoflabor,the realist tradition continued throughout the 1930s, giving rise ...

and forward thrust of the group’smovement.¹⁰The symmetrical composition in- cludesamiddle-aged burgher with old-fashionedVatermö ...

ized relations ofrespect aremade visiblehere throughacompositional approach that emphasizes the mutuallyconstitutive processes o ...

riness and to make visible its meaning,its underlying principle, its relationships and tensions through the formal laws within t ...

However,they alsoreaffirmed the importance of figuration asaconduit for the powerful attachments that connected the working clas ...

less, their original experiments with the enduringpower of figuration within the framework of abstraction offer an important cor ...

chologization is most apparent in Seiwert’ssystematic exploration of types, groups,masses, and multitudes and his visual allusio ...

tionism. LikeArntz, he sympathized with the antiparliamentarian Allgemeine Arbeiter-Union(AAUE, GeneralWorkers’Union) and the le ...

[...]But that which can be destroyed in theseworks attaches itself to us,burdens us,robs us of the courage to act.Therefore:off ...

woodcuts that restagedscenes of everydaylife under capitalisminagraphic style reminiscent ofFrans Masereel.In1929, he movedto Vi ...

labor under capitalism (fig.11.5and 11.6). In bothcontexts, the creative tension between figuration and abstraction is put in th ...

victorious proletariat,and last but not least,the foundation of human empa- thy.”²⁶ He later explains thatstatistics“does notmov ...

Chapter 12 SocialDemocracy and thePerformanceof Community Alone we arenothing. Together we areeverything. Youand youand you, bel ...

tinuities betweenWeimarand Nazi eraperformances (e.g., in theThingspiel)of the workingclassasanimagined emotional community and ...

Whether on the theatrical stageoratapoliticalrally, the first-person plural pronounduring the first decades of the twentieth cen ...

imaginary communities,the so-called performativeturn has allowed scholars to be more attuned to public practices that emergedbef ...