Art of Illusion - Dan Karlholm Kartoniert (TB)

To survey art history as a whole was a pressing task for a generation of German scholars around the mid-nineteenth century. Their projections of a historicist chain of artworks ranged from textual narratives without illustrations to separate picture compendia as well as images of a more allegorical kind. Other means with which to picture art history as part of a virtually all-encompassing cultural history were the museums of art erected in Germany at the time in Berlin and Munich especially. This book deals with practices of representing art history in various media. This includes post-Hegel ian texts and engravings of art history from the 1840s onwards by Franz Kugler Julius Schnorr and others. In addition works of art of the late twentieth century by Andy Warhol Anselm Kiefer and others provide opportunities to speculate on the after-effects and discursive traces of the old regime. Extending the concept of historiography to include not just textual or institutional endeavours but a host of different images as well from reproductive prints to pop paintings and visual archives of the digital era this study is intended to contribute in new ways to a critical historiography of the field of art history and visual culture today.