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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