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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 language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 351-380 |
Number of pages | 30 |
Journal | History and Anthropology |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 13 May 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- Australian Indigenous military service
- Douglas Grant
- First World War
- POWs
- Rudolf Marcuse
- Wünsdorf
- history of race
- wartime encounters
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