[GBay] Neuerscheinung: American Artists in Munich

["Geschichte Bayerns (Dr. Georg Köglmeier)" <georg.koeglmeier_AT_soziologie.uni-regensburg.de>]

ZI-Newsletter November 2009
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INHALT 
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3. Neuerscheinung: American Artists in Munich
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3. Neuerscheinung: 
American Artists in Munich. Artistic Migration and Cultural Exchange 
Processes
Edited by Christian Fuhrmeister, Hubertus Kohle and Veerle Thielemans
Veroeffentlichungen des Zentralinstituts fuer Kunstgeschichte in 
Muenchen, Band XXI
Muenchner Universitaetsschriften des Instituts fuer Kunstgeschichte, 
Band 8
272 Seiten mit 98 schwarzweissen Abbildungen, ISBN 978-3-422-06833-9

Artists have always transgressed boundaries, travelling to the major 
artistic centers of their day, in pursuit of training, commissions or 
simply inspiration from abroad.The bicentennial celebration of the 
Munich Academy in 2008 offered an opportunity to examine the 
attraction that the selfproclaimed Kunststadt or "City of the Art(s)" 
held for American artists between 1850 and the First World War: Who 
came, when, and why? What was the significance of the American 
artistic community in Munich? How did the Munich experience shape the 
later careers of visiting artists?
American Artists in Munich is seeking to re-write the history of the 
lure of Munich by avoiding the reductive scenario of young 
inexperienced Americans seeking out an art training generally 
unavailable in their own country. Its aim is to contribute to the 
history of artistic formation, the history of art academies, and the 
academy as institution, embedded within cultural geography in a larger 
sense.
Munich's appeal for American artists turns out to cover many more 
areas than have been previously recognized, and the essays assembled 
in this volume show how the unique combination of royal patronage, 
institutional power, artistic training, public art collections, 
entrepreneurship, Bavarian craft traditions, new technologies,multiple 
venues for the display of art objects, geographical location, revival 
of history, the amalgam of the folkloristic and the aristocratic, 
affordable living, and, later, the lure of bohemian life, formed a 
special, indeed unique constellation.

With contributions by: Susanne Boeller, Asta von Buch, Frank Buettner, 
Hollis Clayson, Kathleen Curran,Andre Dombrowski, Ursula Frohne, 
Christian Fuhrmeister, Helmut Hess, Birgit Jooss, Ekkehard Mai, 
Katherine Manthorne, Frank Mehring, Jane C. Milosch, Herbert 
Molderings, Michael Quick, Diane Radycki, Eric Rosenberg, Veerle 
Thielemans and Nathan J.Timpano.
Berlin, Muenchen: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009

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