Convenor:
Dr Colin Rhodes (Loughborough University) and Eric Ranff (Independent scholar), Loughborough University, School of Art and Design, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 3TU. Tel: +44 (0)1509 228907 Fax: +44 (0)1509 228902 c.rhodes@lboro.ac.uk .

This strand will explore and question the construction and modulation of values in German visual culture from around 1900 to the present, from the perspectives of manifestations within Germany itself and their impact internationally. Topics may include: configurations of (post)modernity and neo-conservatism; the extent of influence of 'expressionist' values across Europe before 1940; the impact of foreign cultural identities in Germany throughout the century, and issues of cultural imperialism imposed in Germany after 1945; the emergence of German artists on the international stage since the 1970s; the impact of iconic figures such as Kathe Kollwitz, Joseph Beuys and Anselm Kiefer, as a reproduction of cultural values; changes in critical and historical approaches to the study of German art; the effects of exhibitions of German art; issues of revivals and reconstructions; and the mapping of possible futures.

• Francoise Forster-Hahn (University of California, Riverside) Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism: Germany's Search for Identity
• Reinhold Heller (University of Chicago) 'The nude, the foundation of all pictorial art, in free naturality': The Critical and Historical Reception of Sexuality and Gender as Content in the Work of the Künstlergemeinschaft Brücke.
• Frederic J. Schwartz (University College London) The Eye of the Expert: Walter Benjamin and the Avant-Garde
• Iain Boyd White (University of Edinburgh) The German City in the 20th Century: the Aesthetic Imperative
• Bernd Nicolai (University of Edinburgh) The Myth of Monumentalism: Megalomania, Destruction and Virtualism in National Socialist Architecture
• Sabine Eckmann (Independent scholar) German Exile Art and the Discourse on its Aesthetic Value
• Shulamith Behr (Courtauld Institute, London) Reinscribing German Colonial Identity: from the South West African Protectorate to Post-Colonial Namibia
• Tim Bergfelder (University of Southampton) German Cinema: Myths and Histories
• Astrid Ihle (Courtauld Institute, London) Modernity, Decay, and the Loss of Utopia - Three Generations of GDR Women Photographers: A discussion of the work of Evelyn Richter, Gundula Schulze el Dowy, and Anett Stuth
• Bridgid Doherty (Johns Hopkins University) Media in Germany: Darboven and Fassbinder
• Silke Wenk (Carl von Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg) Commemoration in the service of German unification - The controversy about the Berlin Holocaust memorial and public art in Germany after 1989/90