| Description |
283 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
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still image sti rdacontent |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
When anecdotes become truth"-instead of an introduction -- Extreme approaches to the appropriation of reality: Menzel's beginnings as a graphic artist -- Des Künstlers Erdenwallen (the artist's earthly pilgrimage) -- Arabesque commercial prints -- Journeyman bricklayer's certificate -- The art of the celebratory address -- The possibilities of the black-and-white medium: Menzel's illustrations for Franz Kugler's Geschichte Friedrichs des grossen -- Menzel's image of Frederick II: a typological affinity -- Frederick's battles and the horror of war -- Nocturnal apparitions -- The conquest of chromatic painting: Menzel's oil sketches -- The oil sketch as a genre -- The handling of unattractive sights and views -- The private nature of the oil sketches -- Menzel and Constable -- Menzel and the Barbizon School -- From oil sketch to history painting -- Menzel as a history painter: the Frederick paintings -- Genre or history painting? -- Motivic borrowings from popular art -- Menzel's Hochkirch picture: the extreme case of a new kind of history painting -- Commissions for additional Frederick paintings -- The failure of the Leuthen painting and the unloved commission for the Coronation picture -- The farewell to history painting: Königgrätz and Paris -- Fantasies from the armory -- Menzel's experience of war -- In Paris: Théâtre du gymnase -- The remodeling of the metropolis and the typology of its inhabitants -- Pictures of Sundays and the everyday -- Menzel's reaction to Parisian plein air painting -- After Paris: the later crowd scenes -- Painted reflections on art theory -- The iron rolling mill: apotheosis of labor or social critique? -- Menzel and court society -- Piazza d'Erbe: importunate chaos and enforced order -- Drawing as physical experience of the self. |
| Language |
Translated from the German. |
| Subject |
Menzel, Adolph, 1815-1905 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Realism in art.
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Art, German -- 19th century.
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| Added Author |
Kleinstück-Schulman, Carola, translator.
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Getty Research Institute, issuing body.
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| Added Title |
Adolph Menzel. English
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Quest for reality |
| Translation Of: |
Translation of: Busch, Werner. Adolph Menzel. München : C.H. Beck, [2015] 9783406680908 |
| ISBN |
9781606065174 (hardcover) |
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1606065173 (hardcover) |
| Standard No. |
13271164 |
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