Main entry:

Belting, Hans.

Title & Author:

The Germans and their art : a troublesome relationship / Hans Belting ; translated by Scott Kleager.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1998.

Description:

vi, 120 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-120).
I. New Questions, Old Answers -- II. Searching for the German Style -- III. Art Historians and the 'German Question' -- IV. Resistance to the Modern Movement in Germany -- V. The Banning of German Expressionism and 'Degenerate Art' -- VI. The Escape into 'Occidental Art' -- VII. German German Art.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

"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."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0300076169 (cloth)
9780300076165 (cloth)

Subject:

Nationalism and art Germany.
Art, German Public opinion.
Nationalisme et art Allemagne.
Art allemand Opinion publique.
Nationalism and art
Kunst.
Nationale kenmerken.
Nationalism and art Germany History.
Art, German Public opinion History.
Germany

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 203785
Call No.: N6861 .B3813 1998
Status: Available