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New Objectivity (Neue Sachlichkeit)
Named for a 1923 exhibition held in Mannheim, German, this new hyper focused realism was seen as a stylistic reaction to Expressionism but primarily as a critique of the corruption and indulgence of middle classes of German society in the wake of its defeat in WWI, a time of widespread suffering for the poor and for the many mutilated veterans who had survived the battlefield.
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El Anatsui, Old Man’s Cloth, 2011, bottle caps, material, material (The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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