The Forces Of Form In German Modernism

Author : Malika Maskarinec
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810137714

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The Forces of Form in German Modernism by Malika Maskarinec Pdf

The Forces of Form in German Modernism charts a modern history of form as emergent from force. Offering a provocative alternative to the imagery of crisis and estrangement that has preoccupied scholarship on modernism, Malika Maskarinec shows that German modernism conceives of human bodies and aesthetic objects as shaped by a contest of conflicting and reciprocally intensifying forces: the force of gravity and a self-determining will to form. Maskarinec thereby discloses, for the first time, German modernism's sustained preoccupation with classical mechanics and with how human bodies and artworks resist gravity. Considering canonical artists such as Rodin and Klee, seminal authors such as Kafka and Döblin, and largely neglected thinkers in aesthetics and art history such as those associated with Empathy Aesthetics, Maskarinec unpacks the manifold anthropological and aesthetic concerns and historical lineage embedded in the idea of form as the precarious achievement of uprightness. The Forces of Form in German Modernism makes a decisive contribution to our understanding of modernism and to contemporary discussions about form, empathy, materiality, and human embodiment.

Author : Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226745046

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Modern Art and the Remaking of Human Disposition by Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen Pdf

Figures of Thought: Poseuses and the Controversy of the Grande Jatte -- Beethoven's Farewell: The Creative Genius "in the Claws of the Secession" -- The Mise-en-scène of Dreams: L'Après-midi d'un faune.

Author : Adrian Renner,Frederike Middelhoff
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110783827

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Forces of Nature by Adrian Renner,Frederike Middelhoff Pdf

Um 1800 diskutierte man über Naturkräfte in verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen und künstlerischen Zusammenhängen: Anziehung und Abstoßung, Lebenskräfte und elektrische Ströme, der "Bildungstrieb" und biologische Organismen wurden als Kräfte untersucht, die sich auf „natürliche" Prozesse zurückführen lassen. Literatur, Wissenschaft und Philosophie der deutschsprachigen Romantik von Schelling bis zu Günderrode und Hölderlin arbeiteten sich an Konzepten von Kräften ab, die als dynamisch und in beständiger Tätigkeit begriffen wurden – Kräfte, die auch menschliche Handlungen, soziale Strukturen und kulturelle Entwicklungen einzuschließen schienen. Der Band erkundet Vor- und Darstellungen von Naturkräften in der Romantik an der Schnittstelle von Naturwissenschaft und kulturellen Vorstellungswelten.

Author : Margareta Ingrid Christian
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780226764771

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Objects in Air by Margareta Ingrid Christian Pdf

Introduction. Artworks and their modalities of egress -- Aer, Aurae, Venti: Warburg's aerial forms and historical milieus -- Luftraum: Riegl's vitalist mesology of form -- Saturated forms: Rilke's and Rodin's sculpture of environment -- The "Kinesphere" and the body's other spatial envelopes in Rudolf Laban's Theory of Dance -- Coda. Space as form.

Author : Michael Minden
Publisher : Polity
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780745629209

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Modern German Literature by Michael Minden Pdf

Beginning with the emergence of German-language literature on the international stage in the mid-eighteenth century, the book plays down conventional labels and periodization of German literary history in favour of the explanatory force of international cultural impact. It explains, for instance, how specifically German and Austrian conditions shaped major contributions to European literary culture such as Romanticism and the 'language scepticism' of the early twentieth century. --

Author : Kenneth S. Calhoon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Art and motion pictures
ISBN : 9781487526955

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Long Century's Long Shadow by Kenneth S. Calhoon Pdf

The Long Century's Long Shadow explores what is cinematic about the developments in literature, art, and aesthetic thinking that emerged in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century.

Author : Meike G. Werner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9781640141391

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Germany's Other Modernism by Meike G. Werner Pdf

Demonstrates, contrary to conventional wisdom, that European modernism developed not only in the great metropolitan centers, but also in provincial cities such as Jena. The conventional wisdom is that the cultural sea change that was European modernism arose in urban centers like Berlin, Paris, Munich, and Vienna. Meike G. Werner's book, now in English translation, is a study of modernism in the provinces. Taking the small provincial city of Jena as a paradigmatic case, it re-creates the very different social and intellectual framework in which modernist experimentation occurred beyond the metropolitan centers. Invented traditions, social and spatial "liminality," and new ideas of social and aesthetic transformation combined in Jena to create a unique moment of cultural innovation. In the years leading up to the First World War, the Jena publisher Eugen Diederichs envisioned and guided the development of this alternative modernism. Taken up by young writers including Diederichs's wife Helene Voigt-Diederichs, numerous intellectual outsiders from across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, and members of the Free Student movement and of Jena's Sera Circle, this "other" modernism was above all a youth movement, full of energy and bold optimism. Figures such as Rudolf Carnap, Wilhelm Flitner, Hans Freyer, Karl Korsch, and Elisabeth Busse-Wilson emerged from this Jena paradigm. Werner pieces together the story of Jena's modernism in its full richness, complexity, and inner contradictions.

Author : Martin Kitchen
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444396898

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A History of Modern Germany by Martin Kitchen Pdf

Featuring revised and extended coverage, the second edition of A History of Modern Germany offers an accessible and engagingly written account of German history from 1800 to the present. Provides readers with a long view of modern German history, revealing its continuities and changes Features updated and extended coverage of German social change and modernization, class, religion, and gender Includes more in depth coverage of the German Democratic Republic Examines Germany's social, political, and economic history Covers the unification of Germany, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, post-war division, the collapse of Communism, and developments since re-unification Addresses regional history rather than focusing on the dominant role of Prussia

Author : Jeffrey Herf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0521338336

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Reactionary Modernism by Jeffrey Herf Pdf

In a unique application of critical theory to the study of the role of ideology in politics, Jeffrey Herf explores the paradox inherent in the German fascists' rejection of the rationalism of the Enlightenment while fully embracing modern technology. He documents evidence of a cultural tradition he calls 'reactionary modernism' found in the writings of German engineers and of the major intellectuals of the. Weimar right: Ernst Juenger, Oswald Spengler, Werner Sombart, Hans Freyer, Carl Schmitt, and Martin Heidegger. The book shows how German nationalism and later National Socialism created what Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, called the 'steel-like romanticism of the twentieth century'. By associating technology with the Germans, rather than the Jews, with beautiful form rather than the formlessness of the market, and with a strong state rather than a predominance of economic values and institutions, these right-wing intellectuals reconciled Germany's strength with its romantic soul and national identity.

Author : Irit Rogoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521345537

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The Divided Heritage by Irit Rogoff Pdf

Within a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary discussion, The divided heritage considers twentieth-century German art in its social and political context. It focuses on the problems of German cultural production, rather than on a narrative of styles and movements, and it applies both social history and critical theory to an investigation of the visual arts. The collected essays are arranged in four heavily illustrated groups, each drawing attention to the cultural continuities and disjunctures of the period. The first set looks at the issue of cultural disruption, on both a social and political and a conceptual level; the second discusses the effect of representation of gender on the continuity of cultural history; the third highlights the variants within historical patterns of patronage; the city in German social and cultural theory and its place in the world of visual representation. The volume editor brings together the views expressed in an introductory chapter.

Author : GERMAN POLITICS.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1744
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019426557

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German Politics, or, the modern system examined and refuted; wherein, the natural strength of Germany and France are compared; the nature of the ballance of power explained; and our inability to maintain, in our present circumstances, a war on the Continent, is demonstrated by GERMAN POLITICS. Pdf

Author : Frank B. Tipton
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0826449093

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A History of Modern Germany Since 1815 by Frank B. Tipton Pdf

An accessible textbook for courses on modern German history.

Author : German History Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0521429129

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Elections, Mass Politics and Social Change in Modern Germany by German History Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Historical essays on German mass politics, from novel and sometimes surprising viewpoints.

Author : Mark E. Blum
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498595230

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German and Austrian-German Historical Thought in the Modern Era by Mark E. Blum Pdf

Every nation develops a narrative structure for thinking about history that is generated by its own historical experience. In this study, the German and Austrian-German “historias”—the way narratives of factual significance are structured as the “story” of events—are shown in their sameness from the late 1600s to the present. This “historia” shapes the emphasis of how meaning is articulated among the historians of a society. The author argues that German and Austrian-German societies would benefit from understanding the constrictions and oversights generated by the narrative style of their traditional historias.

Author : Barrett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198845768

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Oxford History of Modern German Theology by Barrett Pdf

From the closing decades of the eighteenth century, German theology has been a major intellectual force within modern western thought, closely connected to important developments in idealism, romanticism, historicism, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. Despite its influential legacy, however, no recent attempts have sought to offer an overview of its history and development. Oxford History of Modern German Theology, Vol. I: 1781-1848, the first of a three-volume series, provides the most comprehensive multi-authored overview of German theology from the period from 1781-1848. Kaplan and Vander Schel cover categories frequently omitted from earlier overviews of the time period, such as the place of Judaism in modern German society, race and religion, and the impact of social history in shaping theological debate. Rather than focusing on individual figures alone, Oxford History of Modern German Theology, Vol. I: 1781-1848 describes the narrative arc of the period by focusing on broader intellectual and cultural movements, ongoing debates, and significant events. It furthermore provides a historical introduction to each of the chronological subsections that divides the book. Moreover, unlike previous efforts to introduce this time period and geographical region, the volume offers chapters covering such previously neglected topics as religious orders, the influence of Romantic art, secularism, religious freedom, and important but overlooked scholarly initiatives such as the Corpus Reformatorum. Attention to such matters will make this volume an invaluable repository of scholarship and knowledge and an indispensable reference resource for decades to come.