As good as apple pie? Post-unification Germany and the reception of public art from the former German Democratic Republic.

Jenkins, Jessica ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2295-5871 (2019) As good as apple pie? Post-unification Germany and the reception of public art from the former German Democratic Republic. In: Design, History and Time. New Temporalities in a Digital Age. Bloomsbury Visual Arts . Bloomsbury, London, pp. 51-63. ISBN 9781350060654

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Abstract / Summary

The post 1990 reception of East German public art reveals a need for an official projection of public "consensus" about the communist past. This piece demonstrates how public art has been instrumentalised in this process.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	GDR, East Germany, Public Art, Heritage, National Identity, Consensus, Kunst am Bau, Architekturbezogene Kunst, German Democratic Republic, Willi Neubert, Walter Womacka, Max Lingner, Lothar Rentsch
ISBN:	9781350060654
Subjects:	Creative Art & Design > Fine Art Architecture Creative Art & Design Art History & Theory History, Geography & Environment
Courses by Department:	The School of Communication
Depositing User:	Jessica Jenkins
Date Deposited:	03 Oct 2019 14:33
Last Modified:	15 Nov 2024 15:36
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/3405

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