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The CRC research project Different Aesthetics aims to change perspectives in aesthetic discussions by directing attention to the 2000-year history of European art and culture before the 18th century. This volume explains the benefit of this approach using contributions that range from the philologies and art history to archeology and and musicology, as well as history, theology, and the digital humanities.

Art --- Aesthetics, European. --- Philosophy.

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"Originally published in Dutch and translated to Spanish for the fourth centenary celebration of the death of El Greco in 2014, this book is a comprehensive study of the rediscovery of El Greco - seen as one of the most important events of its kind in art history. The Nationalization of Culture versus the Rise of Modern Art analyzes how changes in artistic taste in the second half of the nineteenth century caused a profound revision of the place of El Greco in the artistic canon. This study examines the work of painters, art critics, writers, scholars and philosophers from France, Germany and Spain, and the role of exhibitions, auctions, monuments and commemorations. Paintings and associated anecdotes are discussed, and historical debates such as El Greco's supposed astigmatism are addressed in a highly readable and engaging style. This book will be of interest to both specialists and the interested art public"-- "Originally published in Dutch and translated to Spanish for the fourth centenary celebration of the death of El Greco in 2014, this book is a comprehensive study of the rediscovery of El Greco - seen as one of the most important events of its kind in art history. The Nationalization of Culture versus the Rise of Modern Art analyzes how changes in artistic taste in the second half of the nineteenth century caused a profound revision of the place of El Greco in the artistic canon. As a result, El Greco was transformed from an extravagant outsider and a secondary painter into the founder of the Spanish School and one of the principle predecessors of modern art, increasingly related to that of the Impressionists - due primarily to the German critic Julius Meier-Graefe's influential History of Modern Art (1914). This shift in artistic preference has been attributed to the rise of modern art but Eric Storm, a cultural historian, shows that in the case of El Greco nationalist motives were even more important. This study examines the work of painters, art critics, writers, scholars and philosophers from France, Germany and Spain, and the role of exhibitions, auctions, monuments and commemorations. Paintings and associated anecdotes are discussed, and historical debates such as El Greco's supposed astigmatism are addressed in a highly readable and engaging style. This book will be of interest to both specialists and the interested art public"--

Aesthetics, European --- Nationalism and art --- History --- Greco, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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New Paths, the seventh volume in the Writings of the Orpheus Institute, is a result of the third International Orpheus Academy for Music Theory. Five renowned scholars discuss a variety of topics related to romanticism, focusing especially on the years 1800-1840. In a much-needed historical and critical overview of the concept of organicism, John Neubauer ranges from its origins in Enlightenment biology to its aftermath in postmodernism. Janet Schmalfeldt shows that Beethoven's op.47 not only should be called the Bridgetower rather than the Kreutzer Sonata, but also that this makes a difference as to its meaning. Extreme contrasts between emotional and mechanical types of music in late Beethoven are explained by Scott Burnham as stagings of the limits of human subjectivity. Jim Samson discusses Chopin's little-known musical upbringing in Warsaw, arguing that his grounding in eighteenth-century aesthetics (as opposed to theory) has thus far been neglected. Finally, Susan Youens' case study of Franz Lachner's Heine songs sheds new light on radical experimentation by a so-called epigone in the period between Schubert and Schumann's miracle song year.

Aesthetics, European --- Music theory --- Music --- Musical theory --- Theory of music --- History --- History and criticism. --- Theory --- History and criticism

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Charles Bernheimer described decadence as a "stimulant that bends thought out of shape, deforming traditional conceptual molds." In this posthumously published work, Bernheimer succeeds in making a critical concept out of this perennially fashionable, rarely understood term. Decadent Subjects is a coherent and moving picture of fin de sïcle decadence. Mature, ironic, iconoclastic, and thoughtful, this remarkable collection of essays shows the contradictions of the phenomenon, which is both a condition and a state of mind. In seeking to show why people have failed to give a satisfactory account of the term decadence, Bernheimer argues that we often mistakenly take decadence to represent something concrete, that we see as some sort of agent. His salutary response is to return to those authors and artists whose work constitutes the topos of decadence, rereading key late nineteenth-century authors such as Nietzsche, Zola, Hardy, Wilde, Moreau, and Freud to rediscover the very dynamics of the decadent. Through careful analysis of the literature, art, and music of the fin de sïcle including a riveting discussion of the many faces of Salome, Bernheimer leaves us with a fascinating and multidimensional look at decadence, all the more important as we emerge from our own fin de sïcle.

Decadence in art. --- Decadence (Literary movement) --- Degeneration --- Aesthetics, European --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Decadence --- Eugenics --- Heredity, Human --- Sociology --- Vice --- History --- History and criticism

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Seit der Klassik und Winckelmanns wirkmächtigen Studien zur Kunstgeschichte bilden die drei Topoi "Griechische Antike", "Kunst" und "Freiheit" eine imaginäre Einheit, die geradezu divinatorische Züge annehmen konnte und ein Modell des klassisch inspirierten Kulturstaates zu begründen half. Im Umfeld des griechischen Freiheitskampfes verband sich dieses ästhetische Ideal mit einer virulent politischen Dimension: Der 1821 ausbrechende Aufstand gegen die Osmanen schürte die Hoffnung, ein neues und freies Griechenland als europäischen Modellstaat errichten zu können. Im Schnittpunkt unterschiedlicher Diskurse gelegen, konnten die Ereignisse im Zeichen des Philhellenismus in gleicher Weise als Glaubenskrieg des Christentums gegen den Islam, als Aufbegehren eines unterdrückten Volkes gegen die Obrigkeit (und damit als Projektionsfläche demokratischer Wunschvorstellungen im bürgerlichen Vormärz) sowie als vermeintliche Renaissance eines antiken Idealzustands gesehen werden. Die Verbindung klassizistischer und romantischer Ideale initiierte ebenso wie der gezielte Einsatz unterschiedlicher Medien eine stände- und schichtenübergreifende Wirksamkeit und ermöglichte eine bislang ungekannte Massenmobilisierung, die in einer kaum überschaubaren Menge literarischer und künstlerischer Erzeugnisse ihren Niederschlag fand. Der interdisziplinär angelegte Band mit Beiträgen aus Frankreich, Italien, den USA und Deutschland analysiert die Bedeutung des Philhellenismus für die Ausbildung eines ästhetisch-kulturellen Europagedankens und untersucht vergleichend seine Rezeptionsgeschichte in den europäischen Ländern.

Art, European --- Hellenism --- Aesthetics, European --- History --- Europe --- Greece --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ελλάς --- Ελλάδα --- Греция --- اليونان --- يونان --- 希腊 --- Intellectual life --- Civilization --- Influence. --- Classicism. --- Greece (literary motif). --- Philhellenism. --- Romanticism. --- image of Europe.