Denying Difference to the Post-Socialist Other: Bernhard Heisig and the Changing Reception of an East German Artist

<div><p class="AbstractParagraphsNoIndent">This article traces the reception of East German artist Bernhard Heisig’s life and art—first in East Germany and then in the Federal Republic of Germany before and after the Wall. Drawing on post-colonial and post-socialist scholarship...

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Main Author: April A. Eisman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh 2012-04-01
Series:Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture
Online Access:http://contemporaneity.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/contemporaneity/article/view/45