Visualizing the Past
The Power of the Image in German Historicism
1st Edition
Published on 22. March 2013
X, 250 pages
978-3-11-028293-1 (ISBN)
Description
Visual media had a decisive impact on how the past was perceived in historicist culture in nineteenth-century Germany. The panorama, photography, and book illustrations can portray the past under the auspices of spatiality. Research on historicist culture often neglects this dimension of space and concentrates on traditional historicist paradigms, such as temporality, narrative, and teleology. By investigating the visual vocabulary of different historicist genres (academic historiography, illustrated history books, historical maps), this volume expands an understanding of German historicist culture as a multi-medial phenomenon, and shows that past is conveyed in spatial forms, such as travel locations, national and colonial spaces, as well as geographical areas. Tracing these concepts of historical space, this volume demonstrates that the image works as a powerful tool to propagate the ideology of German imperialism in the nineteenth-century, but also can critically reflect the political agendas of national historicism.
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Content
1 - Introduction [Seite 11]
1.1 - Visual Culture [Seite 13]
1.2 - The Rise of German Historicism [Seite 18]
1.3 - Historicism as an Academic Discipline [Seite 20]
1.4 - Aesthetic Historicism [Seite 22]
1.5 - Historicism as a Cultural Phenomenon [Seite 24]
1.6 - Narrative and the Poetics of History [Seite 25]
1.7 - Visual Historicism [Seite 29]
1.8 - Spatial Configurations [Seite 31]
2 - Part I: Leopold von Ranke and the Panorama [Seite 37]
2.1 - Historical Ocularism [Seite 38]
2.1.1 - The Panorama as a Mass Medium [Seite 40]
2.1.2 - The Panoramic Eye of the Historian [Seite 43]
2.1.3 - Omniscient Writing [Seite 48]
2.1.4 - Visual Reality Effects [Seite 54]
2.2 - The Aesthetics of the Picturesque [Seite 59]
2.2.1 - Tourism and Travel Literature [Seite 59]
2.2.2 - Ida von Hahn-Hahn's Literary Travelogues [Seite 60]
2.2.3 - The Oriental Panorama [Seite 63]
2.2.4 - The Colonial Panorama [Seite 68]
2.3 - Historical Landscapes - 61 Alpinism [Seite 71]
2.3.1 - The Mountain Panorama [Seite 73]
2.4 - Historical Environmentalism [Seite 75]
2.5 - Ranke and the Panorama: Concluding Remarks [Seite 80]
3 - Part II: Jacob Burckhardt and Photography [Seite 83]
3.1 - Jacob Burckhardt's Photo Collection [Seite 84]
3.1.1 - Photograph Shopping Tours [Seite 90]
3.1.2 - The Photo Collection [Seite 93]
3.1.3 - Mapping the Past [Seite 96]
3.1.4 - Typology [Seite 100]
3.1.5 - Serialisation [Seite 103]
3.1.6 - The Picture Atlas [Seite 105]
3.2 - The Photographic Gaze in Jacob Burckhardt's Cicerone (1855) [Seite 107]
3.2.1 - Roland Barthes's Theory of Photography [Seite 110]
3.2.2 - Adalbert Stifter's Photographic Aesthetics [Seite 114]
3.2.3 - Living Monuments [Seite 116]
3.2.4 - Photography as Cultural Memory [Seite 121]
4 - Part III: Illustrated History Books [Seite 125]
4.1 - Franz Kugler and Adolph Menzel's History of Frederick the Great (1842) [Seite 128]
4.1.1 - Wood Engraving: The Revolution for Text and Image [Seite 132]
4.1.2 - Bourgeois Spacializing [Seite 135]
4.1.3 - Geographical Space and Landscape [Seite 146]
4.2 - Illustrating Prussian and Colonial History [Seite 155]
4.2.1 - Handbooks of Prussian History [Seite 155]
4.2.2 - Editions de Luxe: Museums of the Past [Seite 162]
4.2.3 - Illustrated Books on Colonial History [Seite 167]
4.2.4 - Samoa: Images of the Exotic "Other" [Seite 175]
5 - Part IV: Historical Cartography [Seite 183]
5.1 - Mapping Europe [Seite 183]
5.1.1 - Cartography and Construction [Seite 183]
5.1.2 - Historical Mapping [Seite 187]
5.1.3 - Christian Kruse's Historical Atlas: Bird's Eye Views on History [Seite 191]
5.1.4 - Text and Image Relationships [Seite 196]
5.2 - Historical School-Atlases [Seite 199]
5.2.1 - Mapping Prussia for School Children [Seite 199]
5.2.2 - F. W. Putzger's School-Atlas [Seite 200]
5.2.3 - The Construction of National Unity [Seite 203]
5.3 - Historical Cartography of Imperialism and Colonialism [Seite 208]
5.3.1 - Gustav Droysen's Atlas of Military History [Seite 208]
5.3.2 - Mapping Wars [Seite 210]
5.3.3 - Geopolitics [Seite 217]
5.3.4 - Colonial Historical Maps [Seite 220]
5.3.5 - Territorial Expansion [Seite 225]
6 - Conclusion [Seite 227]
7 - List of Illustrations [Seite 235]
8 - Bibliography [Seite 237]
9 - Index of Names [Seite 253]
1.1 - Visual Culture [Seite 13]
1.2 - The Rise of German Historicism [Seite 18]
1.3 - Historicism as an Academic Discipline [Seite 20]
1.4 - Aesthetic Historicism [Seite 22]
1.5 - Historicism as a Cultural Phenomenon [Seite 24]
1.6 - Narrative and the Poetics of History [Seite 25]
1.7 - Visual Historicism [Seite 29]
1.8 - Spatial Configurations [Seite 31]
2 - Part I: Leopold von Ranke and the Panorama [Seite 37]
2.1 - Historical Ocularism [Seite 38]
2.1.1 - The Panorama as a Mass Medium [Seite 40]
2.1.2 - The Panoramic Eye of the Historian [Seite 43]
2.1.3 - Omniscient Writing [Seite 48]
2.1.4 - Visual Reality Effects [Seite 54]
2.2 - The Aesthetics of the Picturesque [Seite 59]
2.2.1 - Tourism and Travel Literature [Seite 59]
2.2.2 - Ida von Hahn-Hahn's Literary Travelogues [Seite 60]
2.2.3 - The Oriental Panorama [Seite 63]
2.2.4 - The Colonial Panorama [Seite 68]
2.3 - Historical Landscapes - 61 Alpinism [Seite 71]
2.3.1 - The Mountain Panorama [Seite 73]
2.4 - Historical Environmentalism [Seite 75]
2.5 - Ranke and the Panorama: Concluding Remarks [Seite 80]
3 - Part II: Jacob Burckhardt and Photography [Seite 83]
3.1 - Jacob Burckhardt's Photo Collection [Seite 84]
3.1.1 - Photograph Shopping Tours [Seite 90]
3.1.2 - The Photo Collection [Seite 93]
3.1.3 - Mapping the Past [Seite 96]
3.1.4 - Typology [Seite 100]
3.1.5 - Serialisation [Seite 103]
3.1.6 - The Picture Atlas [Seite 105]
3.2 - The Photographic Gaze in Jacob Burckhardt's Cicerone (1855) [Seite 107]
3.2.1 - Roland Barthes's Theory of Photography [Seite 110]
3.2.2 - Adalbert Stifter's Photographic Aesthetics [Seite 114]
3.2.3 - Living Monuments [Seite 116]
3.2.4 - Photography as Cultural Memory [Seite 121]
4 - Part III: Illustrated History Books [Seite 125]
4.1 - Franz Kugler and Adolph Menzel's History of Frederick the Great (1842) [Seite 128]
4.1.1 - Wood Engraving: The Revolution for Text and Image [Seite 132]
4.1.2 - Bourgeois Spacializing [Seite 135]
4.1.3 - Geographical Space and Landscape [Seite 146]
4.2 - Illustrating Prussian and Colonial History [Seite 155]
4.2.1 - Handbooks of Prussian History [Seite 155]
4.2.2 - Editions de Luxe: Museums of the Past [Seite 162]
4.2.3 - Illustrated Books on Colonial History [Seite 167]
4.2.4 - Samoa: Images of the Exotic "Other" [Seite 175]
5 - Part IV: Historical Cartography [Seite 183]
5.1 - Mapping Europe [Seite 183]
5.1.1 - Cartography and Construction [Seite 183]
5.1.2 - Historical Mapping [Seite 187]
5.1.3 - Christian Kruse's Historical Atlas: Bird's Eye Views on History [Seite 191]
5.1.4 - Text and Image Relationships [Seite 196]
5.2 - Historical School-Atlases [Seite 199]
5.2.1 - Mapping Prussia for School Children [Seite 199]
5.2.2 - F. W. Putzger's School-Atlas [Seite 200]
5.2.3 - The Construction of National Unity [Seite 203]
5.3 - Historical Cartography of Imperialism and Colonialism [Seite 208]
5.3.1 - Gustav Droysen's Atlas of Military History [Seite 208]
5.3.2 - Mapping Wars [Seite 210]
5.3.3 - Geopolitics [Seite 217]
5.3.4 - Colonial Historical Maps [Seite 220]
5.3.5 - Territorial Expansion [Seite 225]
6 - Conclusion [Seite 227]
7 - List of Illustrations [Seite 235]
8 - Bibliography [Seite 237]
9 - Index of Names [Seite 253]
