HAA 0010 Lecture 4: Germany and Spain
25 Jan 2016
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Everything that is not black is cut away (black is the raised surface) You can make 200-600 impressions from one block. Not a unique object because there are many of them that circulate widely (this is its purpose) Familiarized herself with the plight of the working class through her husband"s. Interested in oppression, labor, and poverty (found them beautiful and later became sympathetic to the cause, originally romanticizing the dignity and bleakness of their existence) In wwi her son is killed, and in wwii her grandson is killed. Removed from her job as an art teacher (her ideas not pro-nazi) as she was a. Response to war about grief and loss, not about glory or victory. Doesn"t matter which side they"re on-- on both sides of war, of winners and losers, mothers lose their sons. Wanted art to be accessible so she worked with prints. Memorial site meant to heal, not just to commemorate.
