{"product_id":"the-culture-of-the-case-frederic-j-schwartz-9780262047708","title":"The Culture of the Case: Madness, Crime, and Justice in Modern German Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow artists in twentieth-century Germany adapted the idea of the medical or legal case as an artistic strategy to push to the fore sexualities, scandals, and crimes that were otherwise concealed.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn early twentieth-century Germany, the artistic avant-garde borrowed procedures from the medical and juridical realms to expose and debate matters that society preferred remain hidden and unspoken. Frederic J. Schwartz explores how the evocation or creation of a \"case\" provided artists with a means to engage themes that ranged from blasphemy to \u003ci\u003eLustmord\u003c\/i\u003e, or sexual murder. Shedding light on the case as a cultural form, Schwartz shows its profound effect on artists and the ways it dovetailed with methods used by these figures to exploit fundamental changes taking place across the mass media of their time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Schwartz shows, the case was a common denominator that connected seemingly disparate works. George Grosz and Rudolf Schlichter drew on it for their violent visual art, as did architect Adolf Loos when he equated ornament with crime. Expressionists, meanwhile, approached the question of whether the so-called \"mad\" shared a right of public expression with those deemed sane, and examined medical and legal approaches to what society labeled as insanity. The case also took on a personal dimension when artists found themselves confronted with, or chose to engage with, the legal system. German courts prosecuted John Heartfield and others for their provocative works, while Bertolt Brecht created publicity for himself by suing the firm to whom he sold the film rights to \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Opera\u003c\/i\u003e. Provocative and insightful, \u003ci\u003eThe Culture of the Case\u003c\/i\u003e offers a privileged view of the spaces of representation in which images--in some instances, as cases--functioned at a key moment of modernity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frederic J. Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262047705\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262047708\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/13\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 432\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.80h x 6.60w x 1.20d","brand":"Frederic J. Schwartz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44080628662527,"sku":"9780262047708","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_175dca88-7c2e-4958-8db3-64168235fa0f.jpg?v=1685487885","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-culture-of-the-case-frederic-j-schwartz-9780262047708","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}