DAS KUNSTSEIDENE MÄDCHEN
Irmgard Keun's 1931 novel, "Das Kunstseidene Mädchen", which has been translated into English as "The Artificial Silk Girl", is one of the most famous of Germany's `Neue Sachlichkeiten' works. This particular novel, in which the protagonist, Doris, a young working class German girl from Cologne, who dreams of the glitz and glamour and bright lights of the big city, Berlin - in her own words, she wants to be a "Glanz"<em>"Glamour Girl" - suffered subsequent censorship at the hands of Hitler's Nazi regime. This was due to the manner in which Doris is portrayed. Her behaviour and attitude towards men and her sexual relationships all greatly disturbed the National Socialist German society, which in
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This, in comparison to her relationship with Ernst, whereby by this stage he is the only man she is having a sexual relationship with, and the eventual collapse of her and Ernst's relationship caused by Doris' discovery that Ernst is in fact still in love with his estranged wife, would indicate that, although her feelings for Hubert may have been extremely strong and register very deeply in her - "Mein Herz ist ein Gramophon und spielt aufregend mit spitzer Nadel in meiner Brust..."</em>"My heart is a gramophone and plays excitedly in my breast with sharpened needles..." Her feelings are merely those of a young, naive girl who does not yet fully understand the complexities of love. She is perhaps simply infatuated rather than in love. This is again accentuated when she shares one of her experiences of sleeping with Hubert, and immediately regrets it;
."..das machte mich böse und voll Ekel. Mit einem Fremden schlafen...machte eine Frau schlecht."<em>"that made me feel and bad and totally disgusted. Sleeping with a stranger...makes a woman feel bad."
Her desire for glitz and glamour has made her materialistic, and the only thing that comforts her after this experience is her stolen fur coat.
Infatuation is further insinuated during this part of the novel, when she describes Hubert as a photograph, ."..und habe mit einem Fotografie geschlafen"</em>"I've slept with a photograph" . This
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Positioned alongside Central Park in the heart of New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and most influential art museums in the world. The Met houses an extensive collection of curated works that spans throughout various time periods and different cultures. The context of museum, especially one as influential as the Met, inherently predisposes its visitors to a certain set of understandings that subtly influence how they interpret and ultimately construct meanings about each individual object within the museum. Brent Plate in Religion, Art, and Visual Culture argues that “objects obtain different meanings in different locations and historical settings.”An object placed on display behind a glass case inside a museum would hold a vastly different meaning if it was put on sale by a street vendor, like the ones who set up their tables in close proximity to the Met. The different meanings that objects are able to obtain is attributed to the relationships that are established between the object itself and the environment that surrounds it. These relationships often involve the kind of audience that a museum attracts, where the work is exhibited, and how the exhibits within a museum is planned out. Museums subsequently have the ability to control how these relationships are established which influences the way a viewer is able to construct meaning. When a visitor observes an object on display at the Met, they instinctively construct a certain set of
This paper is a formal analysis of the Marble grave stele with a family group relief sculpture. It is a pentelic marble style relief standing at 171.1cm tall carved by a master. It is from the Late Classical period of Greek, Attic which was completed around ca.360 B.C. . I chose to analyze this piece as apposed to the others because I’m mainly attracted to art and sculptures from the Greek era. The overall color used in this relief is ivory with a few cracks and pieces broken off. There is some discoloration which causes the color to come off as slightly light brown for most of the relief. The sculpture appears larger compared to the other sculptures in the art room. It represents a family which includes a man, his wife, and their
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One pleasant afternoon, my classmates and I decided to visit the Houston Museum of Fine Arts to begin on our museum assignment in world literature class. According to Houston Museum of Fine Art’s staff, MFAH considers as one of the largest museums in the nation and it contains many variety forms of art with more than several thousand years of unique history. Also, I have never been in a museum in a very long time especially as big as MFAH, and my experience about the museum was unique and pleasant. Although I have observed many great types and forms of art in the museum, there were few that interested me the most.
Positioned alongside Central Park within the heart of New York City, The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the largest and most influential art museums in the world. The Met houses an extensive collection of curated works that spans throughout various time periods and different cultures. The context of museums, especially one as influential as the Met, inherently predisposes its visitors to a set of understandings that subtly influence how they interpret and ultimately construct meanings about each individual object within a museum. By analyzing two separate works on exhibit at the Met, I will pose the argument that museums offer a unique expression of a world view that is dictated through every element of its construction.
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Case Study: The use of assemblage and the found object in historical and contemporary art practice.
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of art as a finished product, signed by the artist and authenticated by the art market,