The Art of War

CONTENTS: Barbara McCloskey: Introduction: What Can Art Do? - Robert C. Kunath: World War I, German Art, and Cultural Trauma: The Birth of the "Degenerate Art". Exhibition from the "Spirit of 1914" - Deborah Ascher Barnstone: Max Liebermann's Kriegszeit Lithographs: Pro-war or Anti-war? - Nina Lübbren: Women, War, and Naked Men: German Women Sculptors and the Male Nude, 1915-1925 - James A. van Dyke: Dix Petrified - Katrin Dettmer: "All of a sudden, there was this split": Heiner Müller's Poetics of Trauma - Justin Court: Heimrad Bäcker: Photography at the Limits of Understanding the Holocaust and its Violence - David Kenosian: Aftershocks: (Missing) Holocaust Photographs and Writing the Past in Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage and W. G. Sebald's "Max Ferber" - Annette Vowinckel: Horst Faas, Thomas Billhardt, and the Visual Vietnam War in the Two Germanys - Andrea Gyorody: This Sum of Catastrophes: Excavating the History of Joseph Beuys's 7000 Oaks - Svea Braeunert: Deferring Perspective in Times of Urgency: Louise Lawler Looks at Gerhard Richter's Painting of the Air War.