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Title

Visualizing the past : the power of the image in German historicism / Kathrin Maurer.

Author

Maurer, Kathrin

Publication

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]

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Description

x, 250 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Visual media had a decisive impact on how the past was perceived in 19th-century Germany. The panorama, photography, and book illustrations can portray the past spatially. By investigating the visual vocabulary of different historicist genres (historical maps, historiography and historical novels), this volume expands an understanding of German historicist culture as a multi-medial phenomenon. It demonstrates that the image works as a powerful tool to propagate the ideology of German imperialism, but also can critically reflect the political agendas of national historicism.

Series Statement

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies, 1861-8030 ; volume 13

Uniform Title

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 13.

Alternative Title

• Power of the image in German historicism
• Image in German historicism

Subjects

• Historicism in art
• Art and history > Germany > History > 19th century
• Historiography > Germany > History > 19th century
• Art and society > Germany > History > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Visual culture -- The rise of German historicism -- Historicism as an academic discipline -- Aesthetic historicism -- Historicism as a cultural phenomenon -- Narrative and the poetics of history -- Visual historicism -- Spatial configurations -- Leopold von Ranke and the Panorama -- Historical ocularism -- The Panorama as a mass medium -- The Panoramic eye of the Historian -- Omniscient writing -- Visual reality effects -- The aesthetics of the picturesque -- Tourism and travel literature -- Ida von Hahn-Hahn's Literary Travelogues -- The Oriental Panorama -- The Colonial Panorama -- Historical landscapes -- Alpinism -- The mountain Panorama -- Historical environmentalism -- Ranke and the Panorama : concluding remarks -- Jacob Burckhardt and photography -- Jacob Burckhardt's photo collection -- Photograph shopping tours -- The photo collection -- Mapping the past -- Typology -- Serialisation -- The picture atlas -- The photographic Gaze in Jacob Burckhardt's Cicerone (1855) -- Roland Barthes's theory of photography -- Adalbert Stifter's photographic aesthetics -- Living monuments -- Photography as cultural memory -- Illustrated history books -- Franz Kugler and Adolph Menzel's history of Frederick the Great (1842) -- Wood Engraving : The Revolution for text and image -- Bourgeois spacializing -- Geographical space and landscape -- Illustrating Prussian and Colonial history -- Handbooks of Prussian history -- Editions de Luxe : Museums of the past -- Illustrated books on Colonial history -- Samoa : images of the exotic "other" -- Historical cartography -- Mapping Europe -- Cartography and construction -- Historical mapping -- Christian Kruse's historical atlas : bird's eye views on history -- Text and image relationships -- Historical school-atlases -- Mapping Prussia for School Children -- F.W. Putzger's school-atlas -- The construction of national unity -- Historical cartography of imperialism and colonialism -- Gustav Droysen's atlas of military history -- Mapping wars -- Geopolitics -- Colonial historical maps -- Territorial expansion -- Conclusion -- List of illustrations -- Bibliography -- Index of names.

Call Number

JQE 16-102

ISBN

• 9783110282825
• 3110282828

LCCN

2013003643

OCLC

829096812

Author

Maurer, Kathrin, author.

Title

Visualizing the past : the power of the image in German historicism / Kathrin Maurer.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies, 1861-8030 ; volume 13

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; v. 13.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.

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Research Call Number

JQE 16-102