Caught By Politics - Hitler Exiles and American Visual Culture

This book explores German and European exile visual artists, designers and film practitioners in the United States such as Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Hans Richter, Peter Lorre, and Edgar Ulmer and examines how American artists including Walter Quirt, Jackson Pollock, and Robert Motherwell responded to the Europeanization of American culture.

SABINE ECKMANN is the director of the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

LUTZ KOEPNICK is Professor of German, Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.