Main entry:

Marchand, Suzanne L., 1961-

Title & Author:

Down from Olympus : archaeology and philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1970 / Suzanne L. Marchand.

Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1996.

Description:

xxiv, 400 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-389) and index.
The Making of a Cultural Obsession -- From Ideals to Institutions -- The Vicissitudes of Grand-Scale Archaeology -- Trouble in Olympus -- Excavating the Barbarian -- The Peculiarities of German Orientalism -- Kultur and the World War -- The Persistence of the Old Regime -- The Third Humanism and the Return of Romantic Aesthetics -- The Decline of Philhellenism, 1933-1970.
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Summary:

In Down from Olympus Suzanne Marchand attempts to come to grips with German Graecophilia, not as a private passion but as an institutionally generated and preserved cultural trope. The book argues that nineteenth-century philhellenes inherited both an elitist normative aesthetics and an ascetic scholarly ethos from their Romantic predecessors; German "neohumanists" promised to reconcile these intellectual commitments, and by so doing, to revitalize education and the arts. Focusing on the history of classical archaeology, Marchand shows how the injunction to imitate Greek art, especially sculpture, was made the basis for new, state-funded cultural institutions. Tracing interactions between scholars and policymakers that made possible grand-scale cultural feats like the acquisition of the Pergamum Altar, she underscores both the gains in specialized knowledge and the failures in social responsibility that were the distinctive products of German neohumanism. Most important, Marchand traces the history of the study, excavation, and exhibition of Greek art as a means to confront the social, cultural and political consequences of the specialization of scholarship in the last two centuries. Although it emphasizes the persistence of ancient models, Down from Olympus is very much a modern tale.

Resources:
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ISBN:

0691043930 (acid-free paper)
9780691043937 (acid-free paper)
0691114781
9780691114781

Subject:

Archaeology Germany History.
Enlightenment Germany.
Art, Greek Influence.
Neoclassicism (Art) Germany.
Civilization, Classical.
Civilization, Ancient.
Archéologie Allemagne Histoire.
Siècle des Lumières Allemagne.
Néoclassicisme (Art) Allemagne.
Civilisation ancienne.
Archaeology
Enlightenment
Intellectual life
Neoclassicism (Art)
Archeologie.
Filhellenisme.
Griekse oudheid.
Oriëntalisme.
Philhellenism Germany.
Art grec Influence Allemagne.
Germany Intellectual life 18th century.
Germany Intellectual life 19th century.
Germany Intellectual life 20th century.
Allemagne Vie intellectuelle 18e siècle.
Allemagne Vie intellectuelle 19e siècle.
Allemagne Vie intellectuelle 20e siècle.
Germany
Germany Intellectual life 18th century Greek influences.
Germany Intellectual life 19th century Greek influences.
Germany Intellectual life 20th century Greek influences.
Allemagne Vie intellectuelle.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191228
Call No.: ID DD193.5.M37; ID:97-B1761
Status: Available