Arts in exile in Britain 1933-1945 : politics and cultural identity / / edited by Shulamith Behr and Marian Malet

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910962685403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, c2005
• ISBN: 94-012-0200-1; 1-4237-9156-8
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Collana: The yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies ; ; 6
• Altri autori (Persone): BehrShulamith; MaletMarian
• Disciplina: 700.943
• Soggetti: Artists - Germany - History - 20th century; Artists - Austria - History - 20th century; Expatriate artists - England; National socialism and art
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Table of Illustrations -- Preface -- Shulamith BEHR: Klaus E. Hinrichsen: The Art Historian behind 'Visual Art behind the Wire' -- ART AS POLITICS -- Duncan FORBES: Politics, Photography and Exile in the Life of Edith Tudor-Hart (1908-1973) -- Rebecca SCRAGG: Hanging Hitler: Joseph Flatter's Mein Kampf Illustrated Series, 1938-1942 -- Anna MÜLLER-HÄRLIN: Fred Uhlman's Internment Drawings -- BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND THE DOMESTIC -- Margaret GARLAKE: A Minor Language? Three Émigré Sculptors and their Strategies of Assimilation -- Volker M. WELTER: Ernst L. Freud - Domestic Architect -- CREATING FRAMEWORKS -- Anna MÜLLER-HÄRLIN: 'It all happened in this street, Downshire Hill': Fred Uhlman and the Free German League of Culture -- Dorothea McEWAN: Exhibition as Morale Boosters. The Exhibition Programme of the Warburg Institute 1938-1945 -- Jutta VINZENT: Muteness as Utterance of a Forced Reality - Jack Bilbo's Modern Art Gallery (1941-1948) -- Ulrik RUNEBERG: Immigrant Picture Restorers of the German-speaking World in England from the 1930s to the Post-war Era -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume focuses on the contribution of refugees from Nazism to the Arts in Britain. The essays examine the much neglected theme of art in internment and address the spheres of photography, political satire, sculpture, architecture, artists' organisations, institutional models, dealership and conservation. These are considered under the broad headings 'Art as Politics', 'Between the Public and the Domestic' and 'Creating Frameworks'. Such categories assist in posing questions regarding the politics of identity and gender, as well as providing an opportunity to explore the complex issues of cultural formation. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of twentieth-century art history, museum and conservation studies, politics and cultural studies, in addition to those involved in German Studies and in German and Austrian Exile Studies.

Everybody ought to be rich : the life and times of John J. Raskob, capitalist / / David Farber

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910962848603321
• Autore: Farber David <1956->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-19-991162-2; 0-19-025436-X; 1-299-45670-7; 0-19-990851-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (376 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.092; B
• Soggetti: Capitalists and financiers; Finance
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Small town Catholic boy -- Pierre du Pont and John J. Raskob -- The DuPont Company -- Too big? -- A rich life in Wilmington -- Billy Durant -- Family man -- The General Motors deal -- Man of influence ; -- Crisis manager -- Jazz age hero -- Catholic interests -- John and Al -- The last days of the old order -- Higher and lower at the same time -- Money to burn -- The distant shore.
• Sommario/riassunto: John Raskob is not a name that looms large but his greatest building casts a shadow on the people of New York every day. Financier of the Empire State Building, Raskob was a self-made businessman who worked for DuPont and for GM and famously invented the idea for consumer credit, which he first offered to individual car buyers (GMAC). His wide circle of business associates and personal acquaintances included Water Chrysler, the DuPonts, Alfred Sloane, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Kennedy, Western miners, and the Pope.