{"title":"Rebus and Realism: A Prolegomenon to the “Work” of Adolph Menzel","authors":"L. Phillips","doi":"10.1080/00043079.2021.1882799","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Adolph Menzel (1815–1905), the renowned realist and painter of Prussian history, had a surprising penchant for rebus puzzles. Relatively unknown and unstudied, Menzel’s rebuses open the door to a radical reevaluation of his realism. Analysis of these puzzles and their historical affiliation with the concepts of Phantasie (imagination) and Bildung (self-cultivation), establishes them as a valuable heuristic for understanding Menzel’s various processes of “work,” and their significance for the viewer. Aligning realism with the concept of Bildung, Menzel’s rebuses reveal his realism to be a program of aesthetic education with formidable cultural and political implications.","PeriodicalId":46667,"journal":{"name":"ART BULLETIN","volume":"103 1","pages":"69 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ART BULLETIN","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00043079.2021.1882799","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ART","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract Adolph Menzel (1815–1905), the renowned realist and painter of Prussian history, had a surprising penchant for rebus puzzles. Relatively unknown and unstudied, Menzel’s rebuses open the door to a radical reevaluation of his realism. Analysis of these puzzles and their historical affiliation with the concepts of Phantasie (imagination) and Bildung (self-cultivation), establishes them as a valuable heuristic for understanding Menzel’s various processes of “work,” and their significance for the viewer. Aligning realism with the concept of Bildung, Menzel’s rebuses reveal his realism to be a program of aesthetic education with formidable cultural and political implications.
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