Dark lens : imaging Germany, 1945 / Françoise Meltzer
- Author
- Meltzer, Françoise
- Published
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Physical Description
- xv, 240 pages ; 22 cm
- Contents
- What I remember -- By way of beginning -- When words fail: writing disaster -- Ruination in painting: making the unspeakable visible -- Through a lens, darkly: texts and images -- Suffering and victimization -- Foregone and other conclusions.
- Summary
- "This book draws on literature, painting, and a never-before-seen cache of photographs to explore the representation of catastrophe and the targeting of civilians in war. Focusing on images of Nazi Germany's bombed-out cities, the author connects the fraught aesthetics of ruins with the problem of how to acknowledge German suffering."--Provided by publisher.
- Subject(s)
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945—Destruction and pillage—Germany
- World War, 1939-1945—Germany—Aerial operations, Allied
- World War, 1939-1945—Germany—Influence
- World War, 1939-1945—Germany—Psychological aspects
- World War, 1939-1945—Germany—Photography
- World War, 1939-1945—Germany—Art and the war
- Ruins, Modern—Germany
- Ruins in art
- Civilians in war—Germany
- World War, 1939-1945—Moral and ethical aspects
- Civilians in war
- Destruction and pillage
- Ethics
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
- Photography
- Psychological aspects
- Ruins, Modern
- Germany
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9780226625638 (hardcover alkaline paper)
022662563X (hardcover alkaline paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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