Review | Rezension

A Socialist Family of Man: Rita Maahs' and Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler's Exhibition 'Vom Glück des Menschen'

In 1967, an exhibition opened in East Berlin that proposed, through an overload of images, to unite the histories of the Soviet Union and the GDR, and to confront international photography exhibitions produced in the United States and West Germany. More than the design principles and methods of this show, entitled Vom Glück des Menschen or On the Happiness of People, directly connect it with Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man exhibition, first presented at MoMA in New York in 1953. Its original title was in fact The Socialist Family of Man, and its designers addressed Steichen’s show directly with a scathing critique that echoes the critical discourse in general around The Family of Man. Ultimately, and despite the acknowledged relationship of the exhibition to its Western model, Vom Glück des Menschen also departed from it, crafting a narrative through photographs specifically designed for a socialist society under construction.

ISSN
1612-6041
Umfang
Seite(n): 370-382
Sprache
Englisch
Anmerkungen
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Erschienen in
Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History, 12(2)

Thema
Geschichte
allgemeine Geschichte

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Goodrum, Sarah
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
Deutschland
(wann)
2015

DOI
Letzte Aktualisierung
21.06.2024, 16:27 MESZ

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Objekttyp

  • Rezension

Beteiligte

  • Goodrum, Sarah

Entstanden

  • 2015

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