Über Bilder und Objekte

Picturing pictures of pictorial art. Pictures initiate inquisitive curiosity, they provoke questions about sense and content, aesthetic quality, artistic and art-historical parallels. Individual works can seem to confront us with a proposition, a standard, a thesis. Such emotions and experiences before a picture demand rationalisation, explanation, confirmation, correction, setting in context. The essays in this book are concerned from the perspective of art theory with works of visual art and from the perspective of art teaching with their communication. Linked to these themes analyses of works trace problems and questions in different areas of 19th-century art. Subjects include garments, doors in painting and some Romantic images.