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The Doppelgaenger (German Visual Culture #3)

The Doppelgaenger (German Visual Culture #3)

Deborah Ascher Barnstone (Other), Thomas O. Haakenson (Other), Deborah Ascher Barnstone (Editor)
$155.16
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Publication Date: April 26th, 2016
Publisher:
Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis
ISBN:
9783034319614
Pages:
273
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Description

The Doppelg nger - the double, twin, mirror image or alter ego of someone else - is a universal theme that has been prevalent in German culture since the Romantic period. This volume explores the phenomenon of the double in multiple aspects of German visual culture, from painting and classical ballet to film and photography.

About the Author

Deborah Ascher Barnstone is Professor of Architecture and Associate Head of School in the Department of Architecture at University of Technology Sydney. She is a licensed architect and principal with Ascher Barnstone Architects as well as an art historian. Her primary research interests are twentieth- and twenty-first century German and Dutch art and architecture and classical modernism. Her most recent book, Beyond the Bauhaus: Cultural Modernity in Breslau, 1918-1933 (2016), scrutinizes the so-called dichotomy in interwar German cultural production. Barnstone edits the book series German Visual Culture with Thomas O. Haakenson.

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