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

Tom Murray; Hilary Howes

doi:10.1080/02757206.2019.1607730

Douglas Grant and Rudolf Marcuse

wartime encounters at the edge of art

Tom Murray, Hilary Howes

Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies

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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
Number of pages	30
Journal	History and anthropology
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2019.1607730
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 13 May 2019

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Keywords

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

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Murray, T., & Howes, H. (2019). Douglas Grant and Rudolf Marcuse: wartime encounters at the edge of art. History and anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2019.1607730

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The Other War: An investigation via documentary film into images of race and otherness in WW1 and their implications for Indigenous communities today.

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