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The Genius of German Art

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Pages:242
ISBN:1-4955-1250-9
978-1-4955-1250-6
Price:$229.95
"This account of aspects of the development of German art from the Renaissance to the 1990s emphasizes recurring themes that have persisted into the twentieth century. Contrast in any German work of art can be explicit in its subject or form, or implicit in the way that a theme is treated. ...Emphasis on contrasts explains perhaps the German 'Gesamtkunstwerk' or total work of art--a phrase that is part of a German Romantic tradition where it is claimed that in every work of art, literature or music, its created should aim at a universal dimension." -Brian Keith-Smith

*This book includes 18 color prints.

Table of Contents

The Genius of German Art
15th- and 16th-century Bible illustrations with special reference to Martin Luther's Bible of 1534
Stefan George and Arnold Schonberg's 'Das Buch der hangenden Garten'
Illustrated social criticism in Gemany: Works by Thomas Theodor Heine and Karl Arnold
Carl Einstein and Lothar Schreyer as art-historians
Lothar Schreyer's and Oskar Schlemmer's Concepts of Man
Karl Hubbuchs' portfolio on Goethe's Faust
Rolf Nesch
Art in the GDR-From Anti-fa to the Wende
Aspects of German environmental art
Concrete Poetry-Now you see it, now you don't
Fifty years of Christian Art in Germany since 1946
Concrete Poetry examples