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Marking Time: Women and Nazi Propaganda Art during World War II

McCloskey, Barbara (2012) Marking Time: Women and Nazi Propaganda Art during World War II. Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, 2. 1 - 17.

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Abstract

<jats:p>"Marking Time" considers the relative scarcity of woman's image in Nazi propaganda posters during World War II. This scarcity departs from the ubiquity of women in paintings and sculptures of the same period. In the fine arts, woman served to solidify the "Nazi myth" and its claim to the timeless time of an Aryan order simultaneously achieved and yet to come. Looking at poster art and using Ernst Bloch's notion of the nonsynchronous, this essay explores the extent to which women as signifiers of the modern – and thus as markers of time – threatened to expose the limits of this Nazi myth especially as the regime's war effort ground to its catastrophic end.</jats:p>


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Item Type: Article
Status: Published
Creators/Authors:
CreatorsEmailPitt UsernameORCID
McCloskey, Barbarabarbara.mccloskey@pitt.eduBMCC
Date: 11 July 2012
Date Type: Publication
Access Restriction: No restriction; Release the ETD for access worldwide immediately.
Journal or Publication Title: Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture
Volume: 2
Publisher: University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
Page Range: 1 - 17
DOI or Unique Handle: 10.5195/contemp.2012.43
Institution: University of Pittsburgh
Schools and Programs: Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > History of Art and Architecture
Refereed: Yes
Date Deposited: 01 Mar 2013 15:29
Last Modified: 04 Aug 2020 22:56
URI: http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/17598

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