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German 1152: Berlin: Sin City, Divided City, City of the Future: Art

Professor: Jill Smith Librarian: Carmen Greenlee (cgreenle@bowdoin.edu ) Spring 2014

Berlin 1789

Art Resources

Some Library catalog searches: Dix, Otto (subject) - Höch, Hannah (subject) - Grosz, George(subject) - Mammen, Jeanne (keyword) - Berlin (Germany) -- In art (subject)

Relevant Databases: Art Abstracts - BHA/Bibliography of the History of Art - Oxford Art Online

Selected books and web sites:

Berlin art now / Mark Gisbourne ; photographs by Jim Rakete ; edited by Ulf Meyer zu Küingdorf/ (A curator discusses the attraction of post-Wall Berlin to artists: Available: Art N6885 .G57 2006b)

Berlin in the twenties : art and culture, 1918-1933 / Rainer Metzger ; Christian Brandstätter, picture editor  (A good and recent cultural history of Weimar Berlin: Available:  Main Libr DD880 .M3813 2007)

Berlin/New York : like and unlike : essays on architecture and art from 1870 to the present / edited by Josef Paul Kleihues and Christina Rathgeber (Comparison of Berlin and New York as "art cities", Available: Main Libr N7428.5 .B47 1993)

Bloomsbury Guide to Art / Shearer West, editor (Not limited to Berlin, a general art historical guide: eBook)

Berlin in the 1920's: Art/Architecture subsection and General Resources subsection (web-based course guide from Wellesley)

Berlin Topographies: Art subsection and Buildings subsection and Resources subsection (web guide to cultural Berlin, from Univ. of Texas Germanic Studies Dept.)

Art History Research Guide (Bowdoin College Library)