Sachgebiete

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227 Seiten; Illustr.; 26 cm. Originalleinen mit illustr. Schutzumschlag.

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Gutes Ex.; Umschlag leicht berieben. - Englisch. - PAINTINGS and graphics, novels and poems are historical sources as well as aesthetic objects. Artists themselves become historians when they interpret the past-by painting a historical scene, for instance, or by discussing earlier times in a novel. Artists both reflect and shape their environment. These concepts underlie Peter Paret's new study of Germany in the nineteenth century. The book spans fifty years of German history, from the rise of liberalism in the 1830s to the Franco-Prussian War, German unification, and the fading of liberalism in the new empire. Each chapter treats one or more works of art or literature, and links their background, creation, and impact to the politics of the time. A phase of the Revolution of 1848 is illuminated by Alfred Rethel's woodcuts depicting civil strife as a medieval dance of death; a novel by Theodor Fontane suggests psychological inadequacies as a reason for Prussia's collapse before Napoleon and implies that modern Germany suffers from similar weaknesses. On one level, Art as History is political history seen through the arts. ? (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Introduction ------ ONE. Art as History; History as Politics: The History of Frederick the Great by Kugler and Menzel ------ Liberalism and the Frederician Tradition ------ The New Tasks of Historical Art ------ Menzel's Illustrations for Frederick the Great ------ Menzel's Historicism ------ The Later History of Frederick the Great ------ TWO. Fontane's Prussian Songs ------ THREE. The Revolution of 1848 ------ The Young Rethel ------ Menzel's The March Casualties Lying in State ------ Rethel's Another Dance of Death ------ Another Dance of Death as a Social Document ------ FOUR. Scheffel and the Embourgeoisement of the German Middle Ages ------ FIVE. Before, During, and After the Triumph ------ From Revolution to Empire ------ The Proclamation of the German Empire by Werner ------ Fontane's Apotheosis of the Old Prussia ------ Epilogue ------ Notes ------ Notes on the Illustrations ------ Bibliography ------ Index. ISBN 0691055416