German and United States Second World War Military Cemeteries in Italy
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US and German military cemeteries in Italy differ in style and message. Analysis, interpretation, and research reveal each nation's ideological character at the time of their design, and point to US becoming politically conservative and conformist, while (West) Germany sought new values.
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US and German military cemeteries in Italy differ in style and message. Analysis, interpretation, and research reveal each nation's ideological character at the time of their design, and point to US becoming politically conservative and conformist, while (West) Germany sought new values.
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Styles of soldiers' commemoration reveal national self-images. US WW II military cemeteries in Italy and their German counterparts are analyzed as art-historical artifacts. Their aesthetics, together with results of archival research, reveal a self-assured US united in values, projecting victory and Pax-Americana while a struggling Germany searches for its democratic identity and a place within the community of civilized nations. In Italy, the US relied on imported European classicism as taught at the influential American Academy in Rome and interpreted through the personalities of the cemeteries' designers. Germany's designs, rejecting Nazi classicism, progressed through an inherited unique blend of medievalism with modernism toward a contemporary style that integrates modernism and expressionism. The US honors soldiers' death as worthy sacrifice for the nation's greatness and the world's future. Germany focuses on mourning and interprets soldiers' death as tragedy whose only meaning can be an admonition to seek peace.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „German and United States Second World War Military Cemeteries in Italy “
I. US Organizing for Remembrance II. Germany Organizing for Remembrance
III. Anzio/Nettuno: Space of Triumph
IV. Paul Manship: The Best of American Art?
V. Postlude: Eric Gugler's Monumental Dreams
VI. Impruneta. An Example of American Modern Classicism
VII. Impruneta's Patriotic Embellishment: Message & Beauty.
VIII. Sic Transit Gloria
IX. Robert Tischler's Hegemony in Italy: Continuity and Change.
X. Cassino/Caira. Between Tradition and Innovation.
XI. The Futa Pass: A New Form makes an Appropriate Statement.
XII. The Futa Pass: An Exoneration of Weimar Republic's "Aberrant Art?"
Autoren-Porträt von Birgit Urmson
German/American art historian Birgit Urmson studied art-history in Munich, Paris, Vienna and at U.C. Berkeley, CA. She holds a MA in environmental design, a MA in art-history from U.C. Berkeley, and a PhD in American Cultural History from the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich. She authored the novel "Germaine" and pursues classical singing. She has a large family and lives in Oakland, CA and in Tuscany.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Birgit Urmson
- 2018, VIII, 390 Seiten, 76 Abbildungen, Maße: 15,5 x 22,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Peter Lang Ltd. International Academic Publishers
- ISBN-10: 3034335164
- ISBN-13: 9783034335164
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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