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

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 colonia...

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Published in:History & Anthropology Vol. 32; no. 3; pp. 351 - 381
Main Authors: Murray, Tom, Howes, Hilary
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul2021
Subjects:
Prisoner-of-war camps
Military camps
Marcuse, Rudolf, 1878-1940
Grant, Douglas
Globalization
Imperialism
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary: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.