Douglas Grant and Rudolf Marcuse: wartime encounters at the edge of art

Tom Murray, Hilary Howes

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    Abstract

    In 1918, in a German POW camp, German Jewish sculptor Rudolf Marcuse modelled a bronze bust of Australian Indigenous serviceman Douglas Grant. We discuss these two men’s life- histories, the political impetus for creating racialized images of POWs, the early twentieth-century globalization of colonial power structures, and the capacity of a personal, arbitrary encounter to resist simple, deterministic imperatives.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)351-380
    Number of pages30
    JournalHistory and Anthropology
    Volume32
    Issue number3
    Early online date13 May 2019
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2021

    Keywords

    • Australian Indigenous military service
    • Douglas Grant
    • First World War
    • POWs
    • Rudolf Marcuse
    • Wünsdorf
    • history of race
    • wartime encounters

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