Self-Representation in German Art

Name: Self-Representation in German Art
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ISBN: 9783639026696

ISBN-10: 3639026691

ISBN-13: 9783639026696

Edition: 2008

Authors: Scott Budzynski

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This study investigates the relationship between the history of self-portraiture in German art and the historical question of a collective identity. I propose that the turn to the image of the self demonstrates a narcissistic position in which the subject attempts a transformation of its selfobjects, or figures which mediate a sense of identity. The book begins with the appearance of the autonomous self-portrait with the Renaissance artist Albrecht Drer. It then looks at the Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich and his use of melancholy as both a sense of his own self, and German identity at the moment when a self-consciously collective identity was being posited in terms of a nation…

Book details

List price: $89.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: AV Akademikerverlag GmbH & Co. KG
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 180
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.38" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English