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PETER LANG - European Academic Publishers
are pleased to announce a new book by
Charles E. McClelland
PROPHETS, PAUPERS OR PROFESSIONALS?
A Social History of Everyday Visual Artists in Modern Germany,
1850-Present
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien, 2003.
238 pp. German Linguistic and Cultural Studies. Vol. 12 General Editor:
Peter Rolf Lutzeier
ISBN 3-03910-062-9 / US-ISBN 0-8204-6878-9 pb.
sFr. 69.00 / EUR* 47.10 / EUR** 44.00 / £ 31.00 / US-$ 43.95
* includes VAT - only valid for Germany and Austria
** does not include VAT
How did German visual artists relate to the broader society around them
between the invention of the artist as «genius» and visionary, in the
Romantic era of the nineteenth century, and the struggle to overcome
pauperization and social marginalization through collective
professionalization during much of the twentieth? The collective - if
not always agreed - aspirations and expectations of artists in this
long period are best reflected in the schools and academies that came
to dominate their education, in their professional associations, and
their strategies of marketing and economic well-being. Like members of
other German learned professions, visual artists struggled to achieve
autonomy from state, church, and other powerful social and economic
forces while also raising and maintaining ever-evolving professional
standards. Like other professions, they were forced also to make
compromises with power and money, losing many battles in the process.
The subjectivity of values surrounding art, the "de facto" economic
status of artists as small entrepreneurs unable or unwilling to submit
fully to corporate, bureaucratic, or union organization, and the
practical inability to limit their numbers all conspired to undermine
fully successful professionalization. By bringing the tools of social
history to bear, this book sheds rare illumination on the little-known
history of the many «everyday» German artists, rather than on the
better-known works of the few.
Contents: Who is an Artist? - Forming Artists - Artists' Rewards -
Herding Cats: Organizing Artists - Artists in Society: Myths and
Realities.
The Author: Charles E. McClelland obtained his BA (Hons) at Princeton
in German and European Studies in 1962, his MA from Yale in 1963 and
his PhD also from Yale 1967, both in history. He has taught modern
European and German history at Princeton, the University of
Pennsylvania, and the University of New Mexico, where he was also
Director of European Studies. His most recent publications include
"Professions in Modern Eastern Europe/Professionen im Modernen
Osteuropa", with editor's introduction (Berlin, 1995) and "The German
Experience of Professionalization: Modern Learned Professions and their
Organizations from the Early Nineteenth Century to the Hitler Era"
(Cambridge, 1991).
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