Doctor Dealing With Throat

Eberhard Roters "Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts"

Keine blosse stupide Beschreibung der Malerei und ihrer Stilrichtungen liegt in diesem Werk vor. Sein Thema ist die Entwicklung des menschlichen Bewusstseins einer ganzen Epoche! Es handelt sich um zwei Bände, die ich in einem Wühltisch in einem äusserst unbedeutenden Einkaufszentrum einer unbedeutenden kleinen Provinzstadt in Deutschland entdeckte. Ich versteckte sie sofort unter den üblichen Bücherschund, damit kein anderer etwa diese brilliante geistige Schöpfung mir, bevor ich vom Geldautomaten zurück käme, wegkaufen konnte. Indes die Gefahr wahr nicht wirklich gross. Unverkäuflich und als "Mängelexemplar" weit unter Preis angeboten lag es da, um von to proclaim the obvious lack of that company, that such a book knows what to do anymore.

Its author - a truly universally educated person - is making it the intellectual and cultural drivers of the arts, culture and science so productive 19th Present century and that he even succeeds and what mastery of the word, the style is irretrievably brilliant!

commentary of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on Amazon.

"his" history of consciousness "of the 19th century developed Roters into seven main chapters rather than a linear narrative but as a motive historical panorama Thus emerged a readable work, Finally, although the published volumes include a total of approximately 850 pages, which hardly anyone will read from cover to cover in a train. Instead, it is possible, from the large blocks of individual sections single out and to explore about with the "image of the scientist" or to follow the story of self-presentation in the image of Napoleon. Other sections deal with the romantic side of the century, dream images by Ossian, the problem of art of the sublime. The third chapter is devoted to the "perception changes in the industrial age." In the second volume of the "myths" of the 19 Century treated. Especially worth reading is equal to the first section to end of the world images that were displayed at the beginning of the century in increasingly large sizes and with enormous success in the salons, but today hardly noticed even when they are actually still visible in the permanent collections of museums.

new discoveries and surprises are in Roters book to find a few, as well as the painter of the "other side" of the century have now been scientifically studied and presented several successful exhibitions in the audience was. Some are from Hofmann's "Earthly Paradise" is known, a book that is as stimulating as confusing. Less than essayist Hofmann Roters is always a faithful reflection of the individual "key frames" from. He takes the reader on a tour of an imaginary museum and tells of the picture has become a time of myths that has become not completely foreign.

The motive historical analysis will not be limited to the retelling of the topics presented, but to their particular artistic implementation to track and understand both the "art of an era" as "signature in the appearance of a cultural and intellectual development context." Again and again draws Roters philosophy and contemporary literature to illustrate a range of images, approaching a topic, which leads to long speeches that are not always convincingly described the pictures related. Assuming a single subject, the "Company" an era that "from the individuals belonging to it" there. But this subject is really so homogeneous that a pan-European era consciousness - can assume, that could be captured in a kind of psychoanalysis - or subconscious? It can probably win in retrospect "views" of different aspects, as has been demonstrated Dolf Sternberger, from whose book on "Panorama views or 19th Century "(1938) is Roters relates in the introduction. The image of the 19 Century remain mixed, but possibly not because the "pattern" of the age his "split personality" would be (Hofmann), but because the relations of the European culture of the 19th Century are too complex and too diverse to be able to rise in a linear "big story" without rest.

So you can recognize it as a quality that even Roters in an open form for supplements "views" of the painting of the 19th Century presents. The choice of positions is certainly not solely determined by personal preferences, the positions are always scientifically sound. In the style of language, however, the personality of the author is always present. Rotenberg is aware of his power of speech very much, and some readers who like the occasional impassioned rhetoric and not always funny aperçus displeased that may have more to digest in an essay or oral presentation. It is likely that the author, he had the time of printing itself worried some pithy interjections, rhetorical and escapade, removed or mitigated, would have reduced some digression. The editors have understandably apart, and you will appreciate that Eberhard Roters presented with the extensive portfolios of his great "Unfinished Symphony", as Karl Ruhrberg noticed in the epilogue. The panorama of a century as an era of childhood and adolescence, the homogeneity of here, otherwise than in the modernist style history, is claimed again, but not reduced to a simple theory presented.

Summary
This work provides a comprehensive overview of the painting of the 19th Century in Europe and America. The author analyzes the presented works of art in the light of the relevant philosophical, natural and social scientific, technical, socio-cultural and political developments of the era. "