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Artists and society in Germany, 1850-1914 / Robin Lenman.

By: Lenman, Robin.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Manchester ; New York : New York, NY : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1997Description: xii, 273 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0719036364.Subject(s): Painting, German -- 19th century | Painting, German -- 20th century | Art and society -- GermanyDDC classification: 759.3
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In times past, everyday business might mean making a trip to the pawnbroker, giving a loan to a trusted friend of selling off a coat, all to make ends meet. Both women and men engaged in this daily budgeting, but women's roles were especially important in achieving some level of comfort and avoiding penury. In some communities, the daily practices in place in the seventeenth century persisted into the twentieth, whilst other groups adopted new ways, such as using numbers to chart domestic affairs and turning to the savings banks that appeared in the nineteenth century. These strategies promised respectability and greater access to new consumer goods: better clothes and finer furnishings accompanied a newly disciplined behaviour. Therefore, in the material world of the past and in the changing habits of earlier generations lie crucial turning points. This book explores these previously under-researched patterns and practices that gave shape to modern consumer society.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-260) and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction: Painting and Society in Germany 1850-1914
  • 1 History, Art and Nation
  • National symbols
  • Visions of the past
  • The artist as hero
  • A nineteenth-century Renaissance
  • Museums and national art
  • The eclipse of history-painting
  • 2 Movements
  • The rise of the small-scale painting
  • Gradations of reality
  • Brush and camera
  • Spirit and flesh
  • Art of the inner eye
  • 3 Centres and Colonies
  • The 'big four'
  • Minor centres
  • Elements of an art centre: training
  • Cosmopolitanism
  • Galleries
  • Freedom
  • Artists in the country
  • 4 The Market
  • Art unions
  • Salons
  • Dealers and auctioneers
  • Buyers
  • Integration
  • Prices and patronage
  • Diversification
  • Impressionism
  • Selling the Blue Rider
  • Epilogue: War and its Aftermath

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