Caught: The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republic Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Caught: The Art of Photography in the German Democratic Republic Book

Behind the Iron Curtain, against all odds, photography secretly flourished as an art in the German Democratic Republic. Karl Gernot Kuehn writes eloquently of East Germany from 1945four years before the socialist nation was officially carved out of the former German Reichto 1989, when the dictatorship fell and forty years of isolation ended. Analyzing how Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker harnessed the power of photography to shape and reflect the paradigmatic Marxist state, Kuehn reveals how this very same process inadvertently helped nurture individual creativity and the "silent revolution" of the 1980s. Caught offers the first in-depth appraisal of the artistic, social, and political evolution of the GDR through the eyes of the participating photographers. It is an intimate portrayal of a people "caught" in the conflicting dictates of ideology, artistic oppression, a troubled national past, and basic human desires.Read More

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  • 0520204360
  • 9780520204362
  • Karl Gernot Kuehn
  • 31 December 1997
  • University of California Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 247
  • First Edition
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