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posted on 2015-10-21, 00:00 authored by Brianna Thiel"Otto Dix: Bodily Negotiations of Trauma in Weimar Germany" focuses on the work of German artist Otto Dix through the lens of a disability history of World War I. Using Prague Street (1920) as a case study, Thiel argues that Dix embraced the alterity of post-war bodies in a way that resisted either pitying or vilifying difference. Through his attentiveness to the effects of corporeal trauma on modern ontology, Dix created an unflinching critique of social prejudices and ableist investments in the body in Weimar Germany.
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Advisor
Archias, EliseDepartment
School of Art and Art HistoryDegree Grantor
University of Illinois at ChicagoDegree Level
- Masters
Committee Member
Quinn, Therese Ise, ClaudineSubmitted date
2015-08Language
- en