Reassessing key intellectual and cultural traditions using an
interdisciplinary approach, this book examines the legacy of the
Baroque, the dynastic past in visual culture and the concurrence of
different artistic styles in Germany during the eighteenth century,
such as the Italianate, Francophile and Anglophile within the
courtly sphere. The following arenas of enquiry represent
organizing strands; courtly society and employment practices; court
and artist, and print culture. The study addresses how elite
patronage and Princely taste impacted the social formation of
artistic culture at courts in northern and central Germany,
Austria, and England. Contributions drawn from a variety of
disciplinary perspectives in the arts and fine arts including
visual culture, philosophy and comparative literature discuss the
volume's theme in a series of focused case studies by experts in
these distinctive fields. As such, the volume fills an important
gap in English language scholarship on courtly Germany and Austria.
Although previous publications have addressed patronage in the
eighteenth-century Austro-German context, major questions relating
to artistic influence, changing contexts of viewing and the
employment of itinerant musicians and artists in eighteenth-century
German courts still remain unaddressed. To address this, the book
offers an interdisciplinary perspective, and gathers its
conclusions from the interrelated fields of philosophy, visual
culture, literature and print culture. Through its specific
case-focused approach, the volume makes a departure from prior
scholarship by identifying these as mutually exclusive fields.
Topics discussed include discourses of luxury and sumptuary excess,
changing contexts of viewing, the advent of universal collections,
and the lure of the classical past. In literature, patron-author
relationships were informed by contemporary ideas of 'genius'
together with the reality of changing readerships. Connecting
artistic forms to social formation in particular, case studies
address the transmission of taste through aristocratic family
networks, the creation of new audiences for art through print
culture, and the permeation of courtly values into bourgeois
cultural forms during the late eighteenth century. The book is
aimed at a wide interdisciplinary audience, (history, philosophy,
European studies, art history and comparative literature) and will
also be of interest to specialist scholars, graduate students, and
academic libraries.
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