Menzel's realism : art and embodiment in nineteenth-century Berlin /

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Author / Creator:Fried, Michael.
Imprint:New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2002.
Description:x, 313 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4728656
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Other authors / contributors:Menzel, Adolph, 1815-1905.
ISBN:0300092199
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-299) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Two Bookcases
  • 2. "Who is Menzel?"
  • 3. An Art of Embodiment: I
  • 4. An Aesthetics of Empathy
  • 5. An Art of Embodiment: II
  • 6. Menzel and the "Autonomization of Sight"
  • 7. The "Private" Pictures and Some Others
  • 8. Menzel with Courbet and Eakins
  • 9. The French Response to Menzel: Edmond Duranty
  • 10. Time and the Everyday; Menzel and Kierkegaard's Either/Or; with a Postscript on Fontane's Effi Briest
  • 11. Some Self-Portraits
  • 12. Menzel's "Real Allegory"
  • 13. The Later Menzel
  • 14. "The Disenchantment of the World"; Walter Benjamin on Traces
  • 15. Conclusion: Menzel's Realism
  • Coda: Brickwork.