LEADER 03798cam a22004578i 4500003 hubpceuo 005 20230215152538.0 008 171020s2018 enk b 001 0 eng 010 2017025352 020 9781474226141 (hardback) 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dhubpceuo 041 eng 042 pcc 043 e-gx--- 050 00 DD101.5 |b.F69 2018 082 00 704.9/4994308 |223 100 1 Fox, Paul |c(art historian), |eauthor. |d1968- 245 14 The image of the soldier in German culture, 1871-1933 / |cPaul Fox. 260 London ;Oxford ;New York ;New Delhi ;Sydney : |bBloomsbury, |c2018. 300 xi, 225 p. : |c25 cm. 337 unmediated 490 0 A modern history of politics and violence 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Representing armed conflict in the industrial age -- Adolph Menzel and the rhetoric of command -- Combat and the politics of border landscapes : soldier-farmers -- Combat and the politics of landscape : trench warfare -- Combat and the politics of landscape : aerial photography, maps, and the cold gaze -- Technology and combat in the Franco-Prussian war -- Technology and combat in the First World War -- Conclusion. 520 "This study examines the force of tradition in conservative German visual culture. It explores thematic continuities in the post-conflict representation of battlefield identities, from the 25th anniversary of the Franco-Prussian War in 1895 to the demise of the Weimar Republic in 1933. Using 40 carefully chosen images from both high and low culture, Paul Fox discusses complex and interdependent responses in German visual culture to a wide spectrum of operational military experience. These include regional conflict, total war, internal security operations and border skirmishes during the period. The book demonstrates how conservative artists, illustrators, photographers, and sculptors engaged in representing this full spectrum of conflict were preoccupied with the inequalities of battlefield encounters and the consequential quest for moral advantage. They furnished material that exemplified everything positive the ideal German male could hope to be when at war - even when the outcome was defeat. Their construction of an imagined martial masculinity based on an aggressive moral superiority was so deeply rooted that the continuities taken forward eventually provided a basis for a programmatic imagining of how Germany might again exert its political presence as a great military power in Central Europe after 1918. The Image of the Soldier in German Culture, 1871--1933 is an important volume for any historian interested in cultural history, the history of modern Germany or the First World War."--Provided by publisher. 580 The Roger Griffin ComFas Collection 650 0 Soldiers in art. 650 0 Soldiers |zGermany |xHistory. 650 0 Franco-Prussian War, 1870-1871 |xArt and the war. 650 0 World War, 1914-1918 |xArt and the war. 650 0 Masculinity in art. 650 0 Militarism |zGermany. 651 0 Germany |xHistory, Military |xHistoriography. 776 08 |iOnline version:Fox, Paul (Art historian), author. |tImage of the soldier in German culture, 1871-1933 |dLondon ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2018] |z9781474226158 |w(DLC) 2017050876 880 |6245 942 |2ddc |cBK 952 |00 |10 |2ddc |40 |6704_900000000000000_4994308_FOX |70 |8GEN |9161317OSA |bOSA |d2023-02-01 |eComFas |l0 |o704.9/4994308 FOX |r2023-02-01 |w2023-02-01 |yBK |cGeneral Stacks 920 01 yovwZNX7 992 01 704_900000000000000_4994308_FOX |bSZV_QZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ_VQQVWZR_KB2 966 |cIn the Research Room