Product Description: The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries saw an extraordinary flowering of arts and culture in Germany which produced many of the world's finest writers, artists, philosophers and composers. This volume, first published in 2004, offers students and specialists an authoritative introduction to that dazzling cultural phenomenon, now known collectively as German Romanticism...read more

Product Description: In Framing Attention, Lutz Koepnick explores different concepts of the window―in both a literal and a figurative sense―as manifested in various visual forms in German culture from the nineteenth century to the present. He offers a new interpretation of how evolving ways of seeing have characterized and defined modernity...read more

Product Description: This book examines the defining trends in German politics, history and thought between the Napoleonic wars and 1848, and reflects on how they shaped the verbal and visual satire of the age. Taking issue with the idea that German satire before 1848 is too fragmented for a coherent large-scale study, the author draws widely on the spheres of literature, history and philosophy to inform his work...read more

Product Description: This book tells the story of Germany's rich, flourishing, and diversified world of art in the last decades of the nineteenth century--a world that has until recently been eclipsed by the events of the twentieth century. Basing her narrative on a close reading of contemporary periodicals, and lavishly complementing it with cartoons and other illustrations from these publications, Beth Irwin Lewis provides the first systematic, comprehensive study of that German art world...read more

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Product Description: This textbook adopts an interdisciplinary approach in its wide-ranging study of German culture and society since 1871. Sections on Imperial Germany, the Weimar Republic, the Third Reich, the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic chart the growth of modernism and examine the extent to which culture functions as an instrument of ideological manipulation or critical enlightenment...read more

Looks at the depiction of nineteenth-century Germany in art, and discusses the works of Kugler, Menzel, and Bethel in terms of the politics of the day