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

by Alice Goff

A history of Germans' attempts to transform society through art in an age of revolution.

For 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 ideals as they contended with the destruction of art collections,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226827100
• ISBN13: 9780226827100
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"