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OverviewIn interpreting its own age art often turns to the past. At the beginning of the twentieth century one of these encounters between present and past was prompted by the interest a major figure in German modernism, the sculptor Ernst Barlach, came to take in the medieval epic The Song of the Nibelungen. There exists no statement by Barlach to explain what prompted his interest and the resulting sequence of large drawings on the epic's climactic final segment, reproduced here. In conception and execution these drawings stand out in Barlach's graphic oeuvre, as they stand apart from the multitude of interpretations the Nibelungen inspired in art, literature, and music. This book discusses the epic and its course through German history, the artist's biography and the course of his work, as well as the place the drawings occupy in the art, culture, and politics of Germany in the 1920s and 30s and beyond to the ideological and political crises of Central Europe before and after the First World War. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Peter Paret , Helga ThiemePublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books Weight: 0.689kg ISBN: 9780857453464ISBN 10: 0857453467 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 01 April 2012 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Chapter 1. The Song of the Nibelungen: From Medieval Epic to Cultural Icon and Nationalist Symbol Chapter 2. Ernst Barlach, 1870-1938: An Artist of and against his Time Ernst Barlach: Drawings on The Song of the Nibelungen Chapter 3. Celebration and Rejection of a Myth Bibliography IndexReviews.. .an extensively researched, studious, and enlightening portrait of a keen and multifaceted human mind. Highly recommended, especially for public and college library military history and military theory shelves. . Midwest Book Review Author InformationPeter Paret is Professor Emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. His most recent books are German Encounters with Modernism, 1840-1945 (Cambridge University Press 2001); An Artist against the Third Reich: Ernst Barlach, 1933-1938 (Cambridge University Press 2003); and the 2008 Lees Knowles Lectures at Cambridge University, The Cognitive Challenge of War (Princeton University Press 2009). For his essay on Marc Bloch and Clausewitz, Two Historians on Defeat, he was awarded the Historical Society's 2010 Jack Miller Center Prize. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |