Solar dance

Solar dance: Van Gogh, forgery, and the eclipse of certainty

by Eksteins, Modris

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Art dealer Otto Wacker's 1932 sensational trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs leads Eksteins to a unique narrative of a collapsing Weimar Germany, the rise of another misfit, Adolf Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt.

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Solar dance : Van Gogh, forgery, and the eclipse of certainty / Modris Eksteins.

Summary

Art dealer Otto Wacker's 1932 sensational trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs leads Eksteins to a unique narrative of a collapsing Weimar Germany, the rise of another misfit, Adolf Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2012.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
  • Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2012.

The Physical Object

  • Description:341 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780674065673, 0674065670, 9780674064942, 0674064941
  • oclc:ocn758383655
  • LC Classification:DD239
  • Dewey Decimal:943.085

Table of Contents

The Palette -- The Perspective -- N'est pas -- The Painting -- The Response -- The Effect.

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