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Behind the Mask

Artists in the GDR


  • Prestel
  • Expo: 28/10/2017 - 04/02/2018, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
  • by Ortrud Westheider & Michael Philipp (editors)
Behind the Mask: Artists in the GDR focuses on the wide variety of artistic self-staging in the GDR, between public and private, prescribed collectivism and creative individuality. The intention of the GDR's official state art was to exert political influence and this resulted in ideological entanglements that have been examined in numerous publications and exhibitions in recent years.

ISBN 9783791356952 | E | HB
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Publisher Prestel
ISBN 9783791356952
Author(s) Ortrud Westheider & Michael Philipp (editors)
Publication date January 2018
Edition Hardback
Dimensions 300 x 240 mm
Illustrations 200 col.ill.
Pages 248
Language(s) Eng. ed.
Exhibition Museum Barberini, Potsdam, Germany
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Behind the Mask: Artists in the GDR focuses on the wide variety of artistic self-staging in the GDR, between public and private, prescribed collectivism and creative individuality. The intention of the GDR's official state art was to exert political influence and this resulted in ideological entanglements that have been examined in numerous publications and exhibitions in recent years. Yet how did artists in the GDR critically scrutinize themselves and their own art when their prescribed role was to represent the interests of the state? The pertinent essays and outstanding reproductions in this volume draw a comprehensive picture of art in the GDR from a new and knowledge-enhancing perspective.