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Hand and head

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Self-portrait as soldier

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An edition of Hand and head (2002)

Hand and head

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Self-portrait as soldier

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"Expressionist painter Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Self-Portrait as Soldier (1915) is one of the best-known self-portraits of the modern classical period. With its sharp foreground focus on the uniformed artist's bloody amputated hand, the painting has long been interpreted as a vehement protest against war, specifically World War I and Kirchner's participation in it. Peter Springer's innovative study presents a convincing alternative reading of Kirchner's epochal work.

Springer sees in it, not a harsh condemnation of militarism, but a marked ambivalence in the artist's attitude toward war. This new reading of the painting grows out of Springer's assessment of its imagery in relation to patronage, gender relations, and national identity - and particularly to propaganda and satire. Using Kirchner's letters and other documentation, much of it only recently available, Springer reconstructs the years of Kirchner's military service.

He juxtaposes a range of visual contexts that include traditions of self-portraiture, depictions of prosthetic devices, and propaganda accounts of German soldiers hacking off the hands of Belgian and French children. He then considers Kirchner in relation to Albrecht Durer and to theoretical arguments on the relative dominance of hand and mind in the pictorial arts that invoke the image of "Raphael without hands." Nearly 100 illustrations superbly complement the text."--BOOK JACKET.

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English
Pages
175

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Hand and head: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Self-portrait as soldier
2002, University of California Press
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Hand and head: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Self-portrait as soldier
2002, University of California Press
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Hand and Head: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's <i>Self-Portrait as Soldier</i> (The Discovery Series)
May 6, 2002, University of California Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-162) and index

Published in
Berkeley
Series
Discovery series -- 10, California studies in the history of art -- 10
Other Titles
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Self-portrait as soldier

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Library of Congress
ND588.K47 A75 2002, 2001005636

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 175 p., 8 p. of plates :
Number of pages
175

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL17034897M
ISBN 10
0520216261
LCCN
2001005636
OCLC/WorldCat
47996234
Library Thing
4896294
Goodreads
2123816

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The artist standing in front of the picture is painting the artist in the picture.
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