Event Title
Ideology, Fresh Off the Press: Käthe Kollwitz and Dorothea Lange
Faculty Mentor
Bes Yarborough
Keywords
Bes Yarborough
Abstract
Käthe Kollwitz and Dorothea Lange are artists categorized as social realists and their images are understood as documents of social concern promoted by both Germany and America respectively. Images and media have played a direct role in establishing relations of power and political policy since the time of the printing press. In fact, twentieth-century print mass media, particularly newspapers and magazines, expedited the fame and shaped the artistic directions of two of our most famous women artists. By exploring the circulation and public exposure of Käthe Kollwitz’s 1910 lithograph Woman Worker with an Earring and Dorothea Lange’s 1936 photograph Migrant Mother, I will demonstrate how print media exposed these images of working women where socio-political ideology developed an imagery, and the other where imagery developed a socio-political ideology.
Session Name:
Working Women, Wandering Wombs, the Verfremdungseffekt and the Flower: A Total Deconstruction
Start Date
4-4-2014 1:15 PM
End Date
4-4-2014 2:15 PM
Location
HSB 201
Ideology, Fresh Off the Press: Käthe Kollwitz and Dorothea Lange
HSB 201
Käthe Kollwitz and Dorothea Lange are artists categorized as social realists and their images are understood as documents of social concern promoted by both Germany and America respectively. Images and media have played a direct role in establishing relations of power and political policy since the time of the printing press. In fact, twentieth-century print mass media, particularly newspapers and magazines, expedited the fame and shaped the artistic directions of two of our most famous women artists. By exploring the circulation and public exposure of Käthe Kollwitz’s 1910 lithograph Woman Worker with an Earring and Dorothea Lange’s 1936 photograph Migrant Mother, I will demonstrate how print media exposed these images of working women where socio-political ideology developed an imagery, and the other where imagery developed a socio-political ideology.