The barbarian invasions : a genealogy of the history of art / Éric Michaud, translated by Nicholas Huckle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michaud, Eric, author.

Contributor:

Huckle, Nicholas, translator.

Standardized Title:

Invasions barbares. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Art, European.

Art and race.

Art--Historiography--History.

Art.

Art--Historiography.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

270 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2019]

Contents:

1 From "National Taste" to "Racial Style" p. 15

Taste to Style: Social and Biological Transmission p. 24

"As One Man" p. 33

Races-Peoples-Nations: Interfusion and Confusion p. 40

Giovanni Morelli: Racial Markers p. 44

2 Self-Mimesis and Self-Portrait Gods p. 49

The Invention of the Greek Profile p. 52

Self-Portrait Gods and Self-Mimesis p. 68

The Natural Circulus p. 76

The Physiognomical Principle p. 85

3 The Barbarian Invasions and the Racialization of Art History p. 95

Debarbarizing the Barbarians p. 97

Romantic Inversions p. 103

"The Long and Obscure Barbarian Incubation" p. 108

The Kunstwollen of the Germans and Stratified Time p. 113

4 A New Barbarian: The Artless Jew p. 121

"An Odious Travesty of the German Spirit" p. 124

Portraits of Emptiness p. 127

"This Ugly Little Jew" p. 134

The Jew as "Destroyer of Culture" p. 139

A Desert Race p. 145

5 Barbarian Blood: Heredity and Style p. 151

Racial and Linguistic Mixing p. 152

Evolution: From the Ancient Southern Tactility to the Modern Northern Opticality p. 155

Barbarian Blood and the Origins of Gothic Art p. 159

Atavism: Survivals and Reawakenings p. 170

"National Sense of Form" and the Racial Body p. 177

"Rediscovering the Ancient Peoples in the Moderns": Constants in Art and the Persistence of Races p. 185.

Notes:

"October books"

Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262043151

0262043157

OCLC:

1085575419