Solar Dance Van Gogh Forgery and the Eclipse of Certainty 1st edition by Modris Eksteins ISBN 0674065670 978-0674065673

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ISBN 10: 0674065670

ISBN 13: 978-0674065673

Author: Modris Eksteins

In Modris Eksteins’s hands, the interlocking stories of Vincent van Gogh and art dealer Otto Wacker reveal the origins of the fundamental uncertainty that is the hallmark of the modern era. Through the lens of Wacker’s sensational 1932 trial in Berlin for selling fake Van Goghs, Eksteins offers a unique narrative of Weimar Germany, the rise of Hitler, and the replacement of nineteenth-century certitude with twentieth-century doubt.

Berlin after the Great War was a magnet for art and transgression. Among those it attracted was Otto Wacker, a young gay dancer turned art impresario. His sale of thirty-three forged Van Goghs and the ensuing scandal gave Van Gogh’s work unprecedented commercial value. It also called into question a world of defined values and standards that had already begun to erode during the war. Van Gogh emerged posthumously as a hero who rejected organized religion and other suspect sources of authority in favor of art. Self-pitying Germans saw in his biography a series of triumphs-over defeat, poverty, and meaninglessness-that spoke to them directly. Eksteins shows how the collapsing Weimar Republic that made Van Gogh famous and gave Wacker an opportunity for reinvention propelled a third misfit into the spotlight. Taking advantage of the void left by a gutted belief system, Hitler gained power by fashioning myths of mastery.

Filled with characters who delight and frighten, Solar Dance merges cultural and political history to show how upheavals of the early twentieth century gave rise to a search for authenticity and purpose.

Table of contents:

 

Part 1 The Palette

Vision 7

Sky Aglow 9

Sun on Suns 13

Spring 28

Dealer 34

Aesthete 41

Scribbler 45

Madam 51

Spirit 53

Storm 59

Phantasms 63

Part 2 The Perspective

Winds 73

Fever 82

Sodomia 88

Sun Child 93

Showtime 96

Palace Revolution 98

Stories 105

Sailor Boy 113

Certifiers 116

Caveat Emptor 124

Fame 127

Source 131

Alarum 134

Alexanderplatz 138

Coup 141

Surreality 148

Sensation 152

Ravens 157

Evidence 161

Cela n est pas… 166

Part 3 The Painting

Present Sense 169

Seance 171

Scripts 173

Sequence 179

Etcetera 186

Plus ça change … 191

Appreciation 195

Experts 198

Proof 200

Soul 203

Summations 205

Sentence 208

Appeal 210

Part 4 The Response

Synonyms 221

Symbol 224

Sophienstrasse 229

Reaper 233

Night Light 239

Studio Sanary 244

Crime Scene 248

Part 5 The Effect

Mender 259

Scheherezade 262

Wall 269

Our Weimar 275

Mania 279

Epilogue 283

Notes 285

Acknowledgements 321

Photo Credits 325

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