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Author(s): Cordula Grewe

ISBN(s): 9780815383581, 0815383584

Edition: 1

File Details: PDF, 23.61 MB

Year: 2021

Language: English

SKU: EB-33605380 Category: Arts - History & Criticism Tags: Arabesque, Comics, Cordula Grewe, Kant

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The Arabesque from Kant to Comics

The Arabesque from Kant to Comics tracks the life and afterlife of the arabesque in its surprising transformation from an iconoclastic literary theory of early German Romanticism to aesthetic experimentation in both avant-garde art and popular culture. Its explosive growth in popularity was followed by an inevitable taming as arabesques became staples in book illustration, poetry publications, and even the decoration of printed scores. The subversive potential of the arabesque was preserved in one of its most surprising offspring, the comic strip: born at the moment when the cholera pandemic first swept through Europe, the comic translated the arabesque’s rank growth into unnerving lawlessness and sequences of contagious visual slapstick. Focusing roughly on the period between 1780 and 1880, this book illuminates the intersecting histories of avant-garde theories of writing, visual culture, and even the disciplinary origins of art history. In the process, it explores media history and intermediality, social networks and cultural transfer, as well as the rise of new and nontraditional art forms. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of art history, intellectual history, European art, aesthetics, book illustration, material culture, reproduction, comics, and German history.

Table contents:

Part 1 Three Beginnings
1 Prologue
2 Forays into a Form Grown Wild: Setting the Stage
3 An Outline (of Things to Come)
Part 2 The Arabesque Revolution: Image, Script, and the Crisis of Representation
4 Metaphysics and Media Crisis
5 The Ornament of the Gaze: On Albrecht Dürer
6 The Divine (as) Parergon
7 Ornament, Allegory, Autonomy: Winckelmann, Lessing, Goethe, Karl Philipp Moritz
8 The Disappearance of a Goddess: On Immanuel Kant’s Parergonality
Part 3 The Writing on the Wall
9 Art History Painted: Peter Cornelius’s Murals for Munich’s First Picture Gallery, 1827–1840
10 History as Nationalist Vision: Wilhelm Kaulbach’s Murals for Berlin’s Neue Museum, 1847–1865
Part 4 Turning the Page
11 Philipp Otto Runge’s Flypaper: On Intimacy
12 The Poet’s Pencil: On Clemens Brentano and Achim von Arnim
13 Turning the Page: On Eugen Napoleon Neureuther
Part 5 Taming the Arabesque
14 The Artist as Arabesque: Wilhelm Schadow as the Modern Vasari
15 The Humorous Arabesque: From Wilhelm Schadow to Karl Leberecht Immermann and Back, via Johann Baptist Sonderland
16 The Arabesque’s Kingdom: Adolph Schroedter and Theodor Mintrop
17 Illustration as Intervention and Parody: On Julius Hübner
Part 6 A Symphonic Intermezzo
18 Beethoven, or the Call for Freedom in Composition: On Moritz von Schwind
19 The Laws of Form: On Seriality and Pictures’ Stories
Part 7 A Satirical Finale
20 Contagious Laughter: On Pandemics, the Comics’ Birth, and Rodolphe Töpffer
21 “Ach! Poor Venus Is Perdue”: On Wilhelm Busch
22 The Last Act’s Final Flourish