Menzel's Realism
Subtitle: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: October 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780300092196
Subjects: Drawing & drawings; Individual artists; Painting & paintings; Prints & printmaking; Realism; c 1800 to c 1900; Individual Painters - 19th Century; Art & Art Instruction; Art; Germany; Criticism; European; Individual Artist; Art / History / European; 1815-1905; 19th century; Art, German; Berlin; Criticism and interpretation; Menzel, Adolph,; Realism in art
First sentence: IN VOLUME FOUR OF MODERN PAINTERS, IN A CHAPTER CALLED "OF TURNERIAN MYSTERY: - FIRST, AS ESSENTIAL," JOHN RUSKIN DEVELOPS THE NOTION THAT ALL vision, all acts of seeing are incomplete, that they necessarily stop short of perfect clarity.
Description: "Adolph Menzel was one of the most important German artists of the nineteenth century, yet he is scarcely known outside his native land. In this book a leading art historian contends that Menzel deserves to be recognized not only as one of the greatest painters and draftsmen of his century but also as a master realist whose work engages profoundly with an extraordinary range of issues - artistic, scientific, philosophical, social.

Michael Fried has written the first book in English to explore Menzel's large and fascinating oeuvre, and in so doing has made the artist's stupendous achievement accessible to a wide audience at last."--BOOK JACKET.