The discovery of El Greco
Subtitle: the nationalization of culture versus the rise of modern art (1860-1914)
By: Eric Storm ; translated from the Dutch by Marjolijn de Jager
Contributors: De Jager, Marjolijn, translator
Publisher: Sussex Academic Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781845197445
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; European Aesthetics; Nationalism and art; History
Work titles: Ontdekking van El Greco
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.

"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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "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"--Provided by publisher.

"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"--Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1.; title: Odd Outsider --; title: vague recollection --; title: new visibility --; title: Becoming acquainted with El Greco --; title: first historiographer -- -- 2.; title: Founder of the Spanish School --; title: realism of Manet and his peers --; title: Historicism and nationalism --; title: Velazquez mania of the art historians -- -- 3.; title: National Hero --; title: Manuel Bartolome Cossio --; title: biography -- -- 4.; title: Prophet of Beauty --; title: Bohemian world of Barcelona --; title: Rusinol's road to symbolism --; title: Catalan modernism --; title: El Greco once again --; title: high priest withdraws -- -- 5.; title: Painter of the Soul --; title: Ignacio Zuloaga --; title: new Madrid generation --; title: old guard reacts --; title: Barres and the secret of Toledo -- -- 6.; title: Patriarch of Modern Art --; title: Collectors and exhibitions --; title: Meier-Graefe's road to El Greco --; title: Spanish journey -- -- 7.; title: Example of the Avant-garde --; title: Allies: Rilke, Tschudi and Nemes --; title: critics --; title: Der Blaue Reiter and other wild young artists --; title: reaction of Meier-Graefe --; title: New syntheses -- -- 8.; title: Spanish Testator --; title: El Greco House --; title: nature of the nation --; title: avant-garde: Picasso -- -- 9.; title: Wise Realist --; title: rearguard action --; title: commemoration of 1914.