Faculty Books – Page 7 – Department of the History of Art

Book cover, Re-Visionen. Zur Aktualität von Kunstgeschichte

Re-Visionen: Zur Aktualität von Kunstgeschichte
2002, Akademie-Verlag
Jeanette Kohl, author

“This book is an homage to Swiss art historian Alexander Perrig, whose incorruptible eye and unconventional thinking inspired 15 case studies, written for this book. They all revise established interpretations, with Perrig’s work in mind, from the façade of the Trier Cathedral to scientific illustrations of the 17^th century to the Latin Lover in the era of silent films. With essays by Wolfgang Kemp, Hans Joachim Kunst, Norberto Gramaccini, Jeanette Kohl, Roberto Zapperi, Jochen Staebel, Christina Riebesell, Horst Bredekamp, Barbara und Richard Huettel, Ursula Harter, Monika Wagner, Peter Rautmann, Renate Berger, Joerg Jochen Berns, Werner Hofmann, and an introduction by Leo Steinberg.“

Review by Michael Thimann, Sueddeutsche Zeitung

SpiritofanAge

Spirit of an Age: Nineteenth-Century Paintings From the National Galerie, Berlin
2001, National Gallery Company
Françoise Forster-Hahn, et al

Exhibition catalog. Contributions by Françoise Forster-Hahn, Claude Keisch, Peter-Klaus Schuster, Angelika Wesenberg, Christopher Riopelle and Birgit Verwiebe. Examined artists incllude Caspar David Friedrich, Carl Blechen, Adolph Menzel, Wilhelm Beibi, Anselm Feuerbach, Carl Schuch Max Liebermann, etc. Comparisions to 19th century french paintings too. Bibliography. Index. 192pp.

FiguredinMarble Figured in Marble: the Making and Viewing of Eighteenth-Century Sculpture
2001, London and Los Angeles: V&A Publications and J.Paul Getty Museum (shortlisted for Apollo Book of the Year 2001)
Malcolm Baker, author

This work is a study of 18th-century British sculpture, illustrated with sculptures from both the V&A and the J. Paul Getty Museum and also many impressive pieces from private collections and churches. The book starts suggesting new ways of looking at 18th-century sculpture and exploring its relationship to themes that have figured prominently in recent discussions on British painting. The relationship between painting and sculpture, and the links between making and viewing, are themes that are explored throughout the book. The chapters are arranged in five sections, each prefaced by a brief introduction, forming groups of case studies which illustrate approaches to: writing sculptural histories; design, making and materials; categories and genres; and finally, settings, collecting and display.

Grand_Design A Grand Design: Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum
1997, New York and London: Abrams
Malcolm Baker, co-editor

ViolenceCR Violence and Daily Life: Reading, Art, and Polemics in the Citeaux
1997, Princeton University Press
Conrad Rudolph, author

For an abstract, go to the following link and search the page:
https://ucriverside.academia.edu/ConradRudolph

The “Disempowered” Subject: On the History and Function of Comedy in Heinrich von Kleist’s Works
1996, Königshausen & Neumann: WÜRZBURG
Johannes Endres, author

Kleist scholars tend to imagine the author as the paradigmatic exponent of a tragic mind. The shadows of his tragedies in life and literature seem too heavy and gloomy to leave room for comic tendencies. Although Kleist’s two comedies have always been acknowledged as true highlights in the history of the genre, his comic “strategies” – as well as their precedents from Lessing to Freud – have mostly been ignored. However, with such strategies in mind, the author’s situation appears as one in which the demands of an idealist worldview provoke a retreat to the limited and reduced formats of comedy. Kleist’s massive ›struggle with Schiller‹ – his predominant role model and antipode – is here reexamined in the light of a general struggle to avoid tragic inevitabilities.