Contested Caryatids
Architecture, Modernity, and Race around 1900
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9643146 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Jütte (0000-0002-5074-1769, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 18-45 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Central European History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0008938922000966 |
| OpenAlex | W4312127783 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
In the nineteenth century, caryatids saw an unprecedented renaissance in European architecture. This article explores the cultural history of these female column-statues in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Europe. The focus is on central Europe, and three cities—Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, and Vienna—play a particularly important role in this exploration. Through a reading of historical, visual, and literary sources, the article probes how these statues came to embody, on both a material and a metaphorical level, the social aspirations and societal rifts that marked the bourgeois age. The nexus, real and imagined, between caryatids and Jews is particularly illustrative here. In tracing antagonistic and largely forgotten discourses, the article seeks to shed light on a larger subject that is still underexplored: the complex entanglement of architecture, religion, and race in the long nineteenth century
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Bourgeoisie · Modernity · Nexus (standard · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Reading (process · Sociology · Subject (documents · Architecture · Art, Aesthetics, and Perception · Gender Studies · German Literature and Culture Studies · History · Law · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |