The Art Institute of Chicago
Museum Studies
Volume 28, no. 1 (Spring 2002)
Edited by Gregory Nosan
The first publication devoted exclusively to the Art Institute’s growing collection of German art, this striking issue explores how Germans have, at widely different moments, reconsidered and responded to their national history in visual terms. Fighting repeated battles over what constitutes a distinctly German aesthetic, artists, critics, and political figures alike have exhumed (or avoided) the past in their attempts to negotiate an uncertain present. German art from the Romantic period through the turn of the millennium is the subject of five articles, which investigate the work of artists as diverse as Caspar David Friedrich, Max Klinger, Otto Dix, Georg Baselitz, and Katharina Fritsch. Complete with a special portfolio section highlighting recent acquisitions, this beautifully illustrated issue offers both a compelling, accessible introduction to—and an important reassessment of—nineteenth- and twentieth-century German art.
Awarded Honorable Mention, AAM Publications Design Competition
Articles in this publication:
Marsha Morton, “German Romanticism: The Search for ‘A Quiet Place’”
Jay A. Clarke, “Neo-Idealism, Expressionism, and the Writing of Art History”
Maria Makela, ‘“A Clear and Simple Style’: Tradition and Typology in New Objectivity
Richard Shiff, “Georg Baselitz Grounded”
Stephanie D’Alessandro, “History by Degrees: The Place of the Past in Contemporary German Art”
112 pages, 8 3/8 x 10 1/4 in.
ISBN-13: 9780865591974
ISBN-10: 0865591970
