2A: Art and the Nation
- Beth Irwin Lewis, “Contemporary Art for the Modern Nation,” Art for All? The Collision of Modern Art and the Public in Late-Nineteenth-Century Germany (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2003), 28 – 92.
- Key Themes
- Popular culture and art forms;
- Style of art considered a reflection of political beliefs and ideology;
- The divisive role of the academy;
- Controversy over the adoption of international styles;
- Tension between depicting "real world" subjects and what those subjects looked like ("poor-people painting", "paintings of wretchedness").
- Key Themes
Rudy Koshar, "Monuments," From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1870-1990 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000), 15 - 79.
- Peter Paret, "Modernism and the 'Alien Element in German Art'," German Encounters with Modernism, 1840 - 1945 (Cambridge, UK & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 60 - 91.