: Christine Tauber
: Jacob Burckhardts »Cicerone« Eine Aufgabe zum Genießen
: Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
: 9783110929096
: Reihe der Villa VigoniISSN
: 1
: CHF 97.30
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: "Deutsche Sprachwissenschaft; Deutschsprachige Literaturwissen- schaft"
: German
: 321
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< >Central to this study is the inception and reception of an aesthetic concept in the context of 19th centuryBildungsbürgertum< EM>. It reconstructs the birth of Burckhardt's aesthetic judgment from his 'Italian experience'. His »Cicerone« is discussed as a conservatively oriented appraisal of the art forms of classical Italy and thus as a thesaurus of things worthy of preservation in an age of political and aesthetic upheaval. What Burckhardt (1818-1897) calls 'Kunst nach Aufgaben' (art as a function of its purpose) is drawn on as a polemic defense against the modern artist allowing free rein to the products of an overheated artistic imagination. Burckhardt's work thus stands both as a guide to the true appreciation of art and an exhortation to contemporary architects not to lose sight of their>genuine< calling.