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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-Hegelian 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.

Art of Illusion: The Representation of Art History in Nineteenth-Century Germany and Beyond. Habilitationsschrift

Contents: Historiography in a new vein, encompassing texts as well as images - First text of general art history: 'Handbuch der Kunstgeschichte' (1841-42) by Franz Theodor Kugler - Art history and tourism, through the travel literature by John Murray, Karl Baedecker, Jacob Burckhardt and Ernst Förster - The "Hegelian" museums of art in mid-nineteenth-century Germany, in Berlin and Munich especially, with respect, in particular, to the decorative design - Visual culture and/as art history, from the early nineteenth century until today - History and theory of art and representation in Germany and beyond - Artists discussed include Gustave Courbet, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, Anselm Kiefer, Ruth Orkin, Gerhard Richter, Carl Rottmann, Julius Schnorr, Laurie Simmons, Andy Warhol.