Author

Publication

1998 - Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut

Language

English

Word Count

30,000 words, Guess

Page Count

120 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL345538M
  • ISBN-100300076169
  • OCLC Control Number38468736
  • Library of Congress Control Number98004559
  • LibraryThing1821549
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  • Goodreads2060479

Classifications

  • DDC709/.43
  • LCCN6861 .B3813 1998

Description

This fascinating book investigates what is specifically German about German art, focusing on the attitudes Germans have had toward their art from the Romantic period to the present and discussing the ways in which they have tried to find their identity as a nation through this art. Hans Belting proposes that the history of German art criticism has been coloured by division, a split caused both by opposing ideologies and by the contradiction between what the Germans have wanted their artand their nation - to be and the reality of what they were.

Subjects

Topics

German ArtArt, germanPublic opinionNationalism and artNationalism, germanyArt, German -- Public opinion.Nationalism and art -- Germany.

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