About the Author

Camilla Smith is Associate Professor in Art History in the Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, where she specialises in modern art, architecture and design in Germany and Austria. Her research into aspects of German modernism is published in leading journals such as New German Critique, Oxford Art Journal and Art History, and she has contributed to international exhibitions held in London, Berlin and Vienna.

Reviews

In this study, Camilla Smith wrests Jeanne Mammen from narratives of a sexually liberated Weimar culture and its fall to reveal a more compelling and complex artist. With both sensitivity and precision, Smith illuminates the complexities of Mammen’s ‘inner emigration’—the fine lines between non-conformism and dissent, camouflage and accommodation—followed by the risks and possibilities of post-war culture in Berlin.
*Frederic J. Schwartz, Emeritus Professor of History of Art and Architecture, University College London, UK*

Beautifully illustrated and compulsively readable, Jeanne Mammen: Art Between Resistance and Conformity in Germany, 1916–1950 explores the dramatic life and multifaceted work of one of Europe’s most innovative artists. Moving beyond the dazzling “Glitter and Doom” of Mammen’s Weimar-era illustrations, Camilla Smith thematizes Mammen as an observer, artist, and translator, a woman alive to the possibilities of her age who lived through two world wars and negotiated her own inner immigration under the Nazi dictatorship. The is a thrilling new examination of an essential modernist artist whose significance has too long escaped scrutiny.
*Elizabeth Otto, Professor of Modern & Contemporary Art History, University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA*