The Germans and their art
Subtitle: a troublesome relationship
By: Hans Belting ; translated by Scott Kleager.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Nationalism and art -- Germany.; Art, German -- Public opinion.
Description: This fascinating book investigates what is specifically German about German art, focusing on the attitudes Germans have had toward their art from the Romantic period to the present and discussing the ways in which they have tried to find their identity as a nation through this art.

Hans Belting proposes that the history of German art criticism has been coloured by division, a split caused both by opposing ideologies and by the contradiction between what the Germans have wanted their artand their nation - to be and the reality of what they were.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 112-120).