Art And The German Bourgeoisie

Author : Carolyn Helen Kay
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0802009220

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Art and the German Bourgeoisie by Carolyn Helen Kay Pdf

In this new study of art in fin-de-siècle Hamburg, Carolyn Kay examines the career of the city's art gallery director, Alfred Lichtwark, one of Imperial Germany's most influential museum directors and a renowned cultural critic. A champion of modern art, Lichtwark stirred controversy among the city's bourgeoisie by commissioning contemporary German paintings for the Kunsthalle by secession artists and supporting the formation of an independent art movement in Hamburg influenced by French impressionism. Drawing on an extensive amount of archival research, and combining both historical and art historical approaches, Kay examines Lichtwark's cultural politics, their effect on the Hamburg bourgeoisie, and the subsequent changes to the cultural scene in Hamburg. Kay focuses her study on two modern art scandals in Hamburg and shows that Lichtwark faced strong public resistance in the 1890s, winning significant support from the city's bourgeoisie only after 1900. Lichtwark's struggle to gain acceptance for impressionism highlights conflicts within the city's middle class as to what constituted acceptable styles and subjects of German art, with opposition groups demanding a traditional and 'pure' German culture. The author also considers who within the Hamburg bourgeoisie supported Lichtwark, and why. Kay's local study of the debate over cultural modernism in Imperial Germany makes a significant contribution both to the study of modernism and to the history of German culture.

Author : Maiken Umbach
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191570896

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German Cities and Bourgeois Modernism, 1890-1924 by Maiken Umbach Pdf

This is a study of a distinctive brand of modernism that first emerged in late nineteenth-century Germany and remained influential throughout the inter-war years and beyond. Its supporters saw themselves as a new elite, ideally placed to tackle the many challenges facing the young and rapidly industrializing German nation-state. They defined themselves as bourgeois, and acted as self-appointed champions of a modern consciousness. Focusing on figures such as Hermann Muthesius, Fritz Schumacher, and Karl-Ernst Osthaus, and the activities of the Deutscher Werkbund and other networks of bourgeois designers, writers, and 'experts', this book shows how bourgeois modernism shaped the infrastructure of social and political life in early twentieth-century Germany. Bourgeois modernism exercised its power not so much in the realm of ideas, but by transforming the physical environment of German cities, from domestic interiors, via consumer objects, to urban and regional planning. Drawing on a detailed analysis of key material sites of bourgeois modernism, and interpreting them in conjunction with written sources, this study offers new insights into the history of the bourgeois mindset and its operations in the private and public realms. Thematic chapters examine leitmotifs such as the sense of locality and place, the sense of history and time, and the sense of nature and culture. Yet for all its self-conscious progressivism, German bourgeois modernism was not an inevitable precursor of neo-liberal global capitalism. It remained a hotly contested historical construct, which was constantly re-defined in different geographical and political settings.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1078755424

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Bourgeois Art and Culture in 19th Century Germany by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Blackbourn,Richard J. Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Middle class
ISBN : 0415093589

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The German Bourgeoisie by David Blackbourn,Richard J. Evans Pdf

Author : Ernst Fischer
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789600995

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The Necessity of Art by Ernst Fischer Pdf

"Art is necessary in order that man should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent in it."-Ernst Fischer Reissued with an introduction by John Berger, The Necessity of Art is a beautifully written meditation on art's importance in viewing the world in which we live. In this wide-ranging and erudite exploration of literary and fine art, Fischer looks at the relationship between the creative imagination and social reality, arguing that truthful art must both reflect existence in all its flaws and imperfections, and help show how change and improvement might be brought about. With his emphasis on the individual's need to engage with society, his rejection of rampant consumerism and hypertechnology, and his indomitable optimism, this radical, affirmative and humane vision of the artistic endeavor remains as timely today as when it was first published sixty years ago.

Author : Didier Maleuvre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349948697

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The Art of Civilization by Didier Maleuvre Pdf

Didier Maleuvre argues that works of art in Western societies from Ancient Greece to the interconnected worlds of the Digital Age have served to rationalize and normalize an engagement with bourgeois civilization and the city. Maleuvre details that the history of art itself is the history civilization, giving rise to the particular aesthetics and critical attitudes of respective moments and movements in changing civilizations in a dialogical mode. Building a visual cultural account of shifting forms of culture, power, and subjectivity, Maleuvre illustrates how art gave a pattern and a language to the model of social authority rather than simply functioning as a reflective one. Through a broad cultural study of the relationship between humanity, art, and the culture of civilization, Maleuvre introduces a new set of paradigms that critique and affirm the relationship between humanity and art, arguing for it as an engine of social reproduction that transforms how culture is inhabited.

Author : Constance Cain Hungerford,Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521632404

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Ernest Meissonier by Constance Cain Hungerford,Jean Louis Ernest Meissonier Pdf

This study documents the career of mainstream nineteenth-century artist, Ernst Meissonier.

Author : W. L. Guttsman
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0719036348

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Art for the Workers by W. L. Guttsman Pdf

A study of the popular culture institutions created by the German Labor Movement after 1890, focusing on the role of visual art in the working class environment, both as an influence in the home and in the political agitation and propaganda of the political parties. Political art of this period reflected both a utopian belief in the success of the struggle and the harsh images of a revolutionary ideology, and represented a range of political beliefs, from Social Democracy to the Communist movement. Includes many high-quality bandw illustrations. Distributed by St. Martin's Press. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Bernd Roeck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047410423

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Civic Culture and Everyday Life in Early Modern Germany by Bernd Roeck Pdf

The book offers a concise introduction to the history of art, culture and everyday life of cities in the German cultural area between renaissance and revolution. References from sources and illustrations define the text; they are together useful resources for classes at schools and universities.

Author : Ernst Fischer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002640873

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The Necessity of Art by Ernst Fischer Pdf

Author : Shulamith Behr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780691240961

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Women Artists in Expressionism by Shulamith Behr Pdf

A beautifully illustrated examination of the women artists whose inspired search for artistic integrity and equality influenced Expressionist avant-garde culture Women Artists in Expressionism explores how women negotiated the competitive world of modern art during the late Wilhelmine and early Weimar periods in Germany. Their stories challenge predominantly male-oriented narratives of Expressionism and shed light on the divergent artistic responses of women to the dramatic events of the early twentieth century. Shulamith Behr shows how the posthumous critical reception of Paula Modersohn-Becker cast her as a prime agent of the feminization of the movement, and how Käthe Kollwitz used printmaking as a vehicle for technical innovation and sociopolitical commentary. She looks at the dynamic relationship between Marianne Werefkin and Gabriele Münter, whose different paths in life led them to the Blaue Reiter, a group of Expressionist artists that included Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. Behr examines Nell Walden’s role as an influential art dealer, collector, and artist, who promoted women Expressionists during the First World War, and discusses how Dutch artist Jacoba van Heemskerck’s spiritual abstraction earned her the status of an honorary German Expressionist. She demonstrates how figures such as Rosa Schapire and Johanna Ey contributed to the development of the movement as spectators, critics, and collectors of male avant-gardism. Richly illustrated, Women Artists in Expressionism is a women-centered history that reveals the importance of emancipative ideals to the shaping of modernity and the avant-garde.

Author : Mikhail Aleksandrovich Lifshit︠s︡
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : OSU:32435012728374

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The Philosophy of Art of Karl Marx by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Lifshit︠s︡ Pdf

Author : Christian Weikop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351556446

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New Perspectives on Br?cke Expressionism by Christian Weikop Pdf

New Perspectives on Br?cke Expressionism: Bridging History brings together highly-renowned international art historians in a scholarly work that offers the first full-length reassessment in English of the importance of the Br?cke group to German modernism specifically and to international modernism more generally. It challenges, interrogates and updates existing orthodoxies in the field of Br?cke studies by deploying new research combined with innovative interpretative approaches. This is an exciting volume of essays with an interlinking tripartite structure that charts the significance of this pioneering German avant-garde group in relation to various critical themes, namely, 'cultural and material identity', 'collectivity and selfhood', as well as 'defamation and rehabilitation'. The book is unique in the field in that it seeks to excavate specific historical research relating to the activities of the Br?cke as a bohemian yet nonetheless enterprising artists' community, and considers the contributions of the key members in relation to the dynamics of that group rather than simply on an individual basis. It thoroughly explores the historiography of the Br?cke artists' reception throughout the turbulent history of the twentieth century up until the present day.

Author : Jürgen Kocka
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1571811982

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Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society by Jürgen Kocka Pdf

"For students ... this is a good introduction ... The assorted essays ... successfully present Kocka's methodological emphases and his wide-ranging contributions to modern German social history." - Enterprise & Society "This fine volume brings together essays by one of the leading modern German historians, essays that give the reader an impressive overview of his work from three decades and introduce new generations of students to central questions of modern German social history." - Central European History "... a tour de force of societal history, reminding one both of how many insights Kocka has generated through application of Weberian analytical tools." - H-Net Reviews (H-W-Civ) "... a good introduction ... the assorted essays ... successfully present Kocka's methodological emphases and his wide-ranging contributions to modern German social history." - Enterprise & Society "... a seminal, critically important, uniquely informative contribution to the study of German history, business, entrepreneurship, and the working class." - The Midwest Book Review Jürgen Kocka is one of the foremost historians of Germany whose work has been devoted to the integration of different genres of the social and economic history of Europe during the period of industrialization. This collection of essays gives a representative sample of his effort to develop, by reference to Marx and Weber, new and powerful analytical tools for understanding the dynamics of modern industrial societies.

Author : Martin Ignatius Gaughan
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 3039109006

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German Art 1907-1937 by Martin Ignatius Gaughan Pdf

This book examines the responses of visual artists, including architects, designers and photographers, to the technological and social modernisation of Germany during the first three decades of the twentieth century. It investigates how these aspects of the modernising process inform both the subject matter and formal innovations of their work. The study analyses how these visual practices were not just the concerns of isolated and enclosed art worlds but had wider social resonances, ranging from the debates concerning the reformist objectives of the Deutscher Werkbund (1907) to the National Socialist ideological onslaught on modernist culture culminating in the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibitions of 1937. Many of the artists encountered here were radicalised by the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the November 1918 Revolution in Germany, experiences which effected change in their conceptualising of cultural production and its social function: their modes of working, however, would also set challenging markers for what forms art might take for the twentieth century. The book is, therefore, both a study of art in complex political and sociocultural contexts and a reflection on how engagement with a social imagination can challenge a tradition based on the assumptions of individual imaginings.