Solar Dance : Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty / Modris Eksteins.
Eksteins, Modris, author.
2012
DD239 .E39 2012
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Title Solar Dance : Van Gogh, Forgery, and the Eclipse of Certainty / Modris Eksteins.
Author Eksteins, Modris, author.
ISBN 9780674064942
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674064942
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (368 p.) : 26 halftones
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/harvard.9780674064942 doi
Call Number DD239 .E39 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 943.085
Summary In Modris Eksteins's hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto Wacker reveal the origins of the fundamental uncertainty that is the hallmark of the modern era. Through the lens of Wacker's sensational 1932 trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs, Eksteins offers a unique narrative of Weimar Germany, the rise of Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt. Berlin after the Great War was a magnet for art and transgression. Among those it attracted was Otto Wacker, a young gay dancer turned art impresario. His sale of thirty-three forged Van Goghs and the ensuing scandal gave Van Gogh's work unprecedented commercial value. It also called into question a world of defined values and standards that had already begun to erode during the war. Van Gogh emerged posthumously as a hero who rejected organized religion and other suspect sources of authority in favor of art. Self-pitying Germans saw in his biography a series of triumphs-over defeat, poverty, and meaninglessness-that spoke to them directly. Eksteins shows how the collapsing Weimar Republic that made Van Gogh famous and gave Wacker an opportunity for reinvention propelled a third misfit into the spotlight. Taking advantage of the void left by a gutted belief system, Hitler gained power by fashioning myths of mastery. Filled with characters who delight and frighten, Solar Dance merges cultural and political history to show how upheavals of the early twentieth century gave rise to a search for authenticity and purpose.
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
THE ISSUE
Part One. THE PALETTE
VISION
SKY AGLOW
SUN ON SUNS
SPRING
DEALER
AESTHETE
SCRIBBLER
MADAM
SPIRIT
STORM
PHANTASMS
Part Two. THE PERSPECTIVE
WINDS
FEVER
SODOMIA
SUN CHILD
SHOWTIME
PALACE REVOLUTION
STORIES
SAILOR BOY
CERTIFIERS
CAVEAT EMPTOR
FAME
SOURCE
ALARUM
ALEXANDERPLATZ
COUP
SURREALITY
SENSATION
RAVENS
EVIDENCE
CELA N'EST PAS ...
Part Three. THE PAINTING
PRESENT SENSE
SEANCE
SCRIPTS
SEQUENCE
ETCETERA
PLUS ÇA CHANGE ...
APPRECIATION
EXPERTS
PROOF
SOUL
SUMMATIONS
SENTENCE
APPEAL
Part Four. THE RESPONSE
SYNONYMS
SYMBOL
SOPHIENSTRASSE
REAPER
NIGHT LIGHT
STUDIO SANARY
CRIME SCENE
Part Five. THE EFFECT
MENDER
SCHEHEREZADE
WALL
OUR WEIMAR
MANIA
EPILOGUE
NOTES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PHOTO CREDITS
INDEX
Backmatter

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