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Article: Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany.
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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Lustmord: Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany, by Maria Tatar, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1995; 213 pages, $23.00.
Maria Tatar has written a remarkable book. Lustmord. Sexual Murder in Weimar Germany is both a study of German avant-garde and modernist art and a sustained reflection on the relationships between gender, crime, violence and representation. A compelling chronicle of Weimar Germany's disturbing and pervasive fascination with the sexually motivated murder of women (as reported in the press and as imagined in fiction and the visual arts), Lustmord breaks new ground in our understanding of German art and culture during this turbulent period between ...