"Heroes" and "whores": the politics of gender in Weimar Antiwar imagery. (Weimar antiwar artists' drawings and paintings of prostitutes and war veterans)
From: The Art Bulletin
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Date: 9/1/1997
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Author: Apel, Dora
Antiwar imagery was presented in various art exhibits, photo albums and lithographic portfolios during the ten-year anniversary of war mobilization in 1924. The works of many of Weimar's renowned antiwar artists and propagandists reflected diverse political implications and historical assumptions about gender, feminism and patriotic ideology. Artist Otto Dix's drawing 'Whore with War Cripple,' for instance, shows an ugly war prostitute with syphilitic sores on her face beside a one-eyed veteran ...
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