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• catalog abstract ""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.".
• catalog alternative "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Self-portrait as soldier".
• catalog contributor b12451884.
• catalog contributor b12451885.
• catalog created "c2002.".
• catalog date "2002".
• catalog date "c2002.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
• catalog description ""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.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-162) and index.".
• catalog description "Preface -- A Look at One's Self -- Self-Portrait as Soldier: Description and HIstory -- Critical Interpretations of the Painting -- The Context: Kirchner's Time as a Soldier -- Other Works, 1915-1917 -- War Enthusiasm versus a Desire to Dodge -- "The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer" -- The Motif of the Mutiliated Hand -- Beyond Surgery -- The Propaganda Iconography of the Severed Hand -- The Artist's Missing Hand -- Kirchner as a Follower of Dürer -- Raphael without Hands -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog extent "xi, 175 p., 8 p. of plates :".
• catalog identifier "0520216261 (alk. paper)".
• catalog isPartOf "California studies in the history of art. Discovery series ; 10.".
• catalog isPartOf "Discovery series ; 10".
• catalog issued "2002".
• catalog issued "c2002.".
• catalog language "eng ger".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Berkeley : University of California Press,".
• catalog spatial "Germany.".
• catalog subject "759.3 21".
• catalog subject "Expressionism (Art) Germany.".
• catalog subject "Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig, 1880-1938 Criticism and interpretation.".
• catalog subject "Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig, 1880-1938 Self-portraits.".
• catalog subject "Kirchner, Ernst Ludwig, 1880-1938. Self-portrait as soldier.".
• catalog subject "ND588.K47 A75 2002".
• catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- A Look at One's Self -- Self-Portrait as Soldier: Description and HIstory -- Critical Interpretations of the Painting -- The Context: Kirchner's Time as a Soldier -- Other Works, 1915-1917 -- War Enthusiasm versus a Desire to Dodge -- "The Artist as Exemplary Sufferer" -- The Motif of the Mutiliated Hand -- Beyond Surgery -- The Propaganda Iconography of the Severed Hand -- The Artist's Missing Hand -- Kirchner as a Follower of Dürer -- Raphael without Hands -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Illustration Credits -- Index".
• catalog title "Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Self-portrait as soldier".
• catalog title "Hand and head : Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Self-portrait as soldier / Peter Springer ; translated by Susan Ray.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".