Feminist Painting and Experimental Art in East Germany The Case of Angela Hampel
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
26.05.2026
Verlag
Camden HouseSeitenzahl
350
Maße (L/B/H)
23,5/15,7/2,7 cm
Gewicht
902 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-64014-233-6
Challenges the conventional view that East German artists were either loyal to the regime or hostile to it through the example of one of its most dynamic figures, the feminist painter and experimental artist Angela Hampel. In November 1988, artist Angela Hampel stood before East Germany's Artists Union and challenged its male-dominated leadership, demanding gender parity across the art world. This bold act was one of many in a remarkable career that defies easy categorization: In East Germany, Hampel was both an officially recognized painter whose work represented the country in major exhibitions at home and abroad-such as the Venice Biennale-and an experimental artist creating provocative installations in "alternative" venues. Through Hampel's life and work, this groundbreaking study dismantles persistent stereotypes about East German art. Neither a state propagandist nor a dissident, Hampel-like many of her generation-believed in reforming socialism from within. Her punk-inspired, Neoexpressionist paintings of powerful women from mythology and the Bible together with her collaborative installations engaged critically with patriarchy, environmentalism, and other social issues that resonate to the present day. Drawing on over twenty years of research, hundreds of interviews, and extensive archival work, this book reveals an East German art world far more complex than Western scholarship has acknowledged. Here, experimental and traditional art coexisted, women artists thrived in greater numbers than in the West, and millions attended national exhibitions. This is the story of an artist committed to socialist ideals who took to the streets in 1989 not to overthrow the system, but to improve it.
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