Edward Timms: 3 books

Mit seinen Forschungen über die Wiener Gesellschaft und Kulturlandschaft des Fin de Siècle hat der amerikanische Kulturhistoriker Carl E. Schorske nicht nur einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Kulturgeschichte Österreichs geleistet, er hat auch das Selbstverständnis der Wiener Kulturlandschaft geprägt...

This book investigates creative responses to the Nazi period in the work of three artists, Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, focusing on their use of pictorial narrative. It analyses their contrasting aesthetic strategies and their innovative forms of artistic production. In contrast...

How was it possible for a well-educated nation to support a regime that made it a crime to think for yourself? This was the key question for the Stuttgart-based author Anna Haag (1888–1982), the democratic feminist whose anti-Nazi diaries are analysed in this book. Like Victor Klemperer, she deconstructed...