The God behind the Marble : The Fate of Art in the German Aesthetic State

The University of Chicago Press

The God behind the Marble\nby Alice Goff\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nDelivery\nUsually delivered in 2\u20133 working days (dispatched today if ordered before 3pm).\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Alice Goff\nTitle: The God behind the Marble\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of art\nPublisher: University of Chicago Press\nPublication year: 2024\nISBN-13: 9780226827100\nISBN-10: 0226827100\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nA history of Germans' attempts to transform society through art in an age of revolution.\nFor German philosophers at the turn of the nineteenth century, beautiful works of art acted as beacons of freedom, instruments of progress that could model and stimulate the moral autonomy of their beholders. Amid the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars, Germans struggled to uphold these ide.