Lustmord
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691015902 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 213 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tatar first analyzes actual cases of sexual murder that aroused wide public interest in Weimar Germany. Not only does Tatar show that male artists openly identified with real-life sexual murderers--George Grosz posed as Jack the Ripper in a photograph where his model and future wife was the target of his knife--but she also reveals the ways in which victims were disavowed and erased. In a book that confronts our society's obsession with sexual violence, Maria Tatar seeks the meaning behind one of the most disturbing images of twentieth-century Western culture: the violated female corpse. In examining images of sexual murder (Lustmord), she produces a riveting study of how art and murder have intersected in the sexual politics of culture from Weimar Germany to the present. Tatar, however, challenges us to consider what is taking place--both artistically and socially--in the construction and circulation of scenes depicting sexual murder. Here a revealing episode in the gender politics of cultural production unfolds as male artists and writers, working in a society consumed by fear of outside threats, envision women as enemies that can be contained and mastered through transcendent art
. From Scientific American Tatar's book is particularly relevant today, amid the heated debates over violence, even as the images become more brutal and sensational, and the camera more voyeuristic and merciless
Blood on the Canvas, the Screen, and the Cobblestones I had some general familiarity with Maria Tatar, based on a class I previously took on Hausmarchen (German fairy tales) that included her essays alongside works by Jack Zipes and Bruno Bettelheim.I knew she was a thoughtful scholar and a talented writer, but "Lustmord" easily outstrips the shorter works of hers that I previously read as an undergrad.Ms. Tatar does a wonderful job in this work of synthesizing, examining, and investigati. A Customer said Odd, yet interesting. This book is first and foremost of great interest to students of the arts, illustrating the social climate in which German artists between the World Wars worked and its effect on their art. Additionally, it should also interest hard core true crime buffs. There are plenty of interesting tidbits about Peter Kurten and Fritz Haarman, two of Germany's most twisted citizens, and it is fascinating to see how their crimes influenced German a. Excellent Journey into the Minds of Men Pat Brown Fascinating book that looks at the art of Germany after World War 1 and discusses the implication of the sexually violent images that increased dramatically at that point in history. This is a sociological look at the connection between the culture of the times and the idiosyncrasies that produced such a mindset. Pat Brown/Director/Investigative Criminal Profiler/The Sexual Homicide Exchange, Inc.