Die Radikalisierung des Konzepts nach 1850

The concept of Art as Religion that arose in the late 18th century became radicalized after 1850 in the perspective of a new aesthetic of modernity.? Art as an autonomous entity assumed functions and tasks that were once the purview of religion - the arist, for example, was stylized as a kind of priest or prophet.Offering perspectives that are synchronous and diachronic as well as media-specific and transmedial, the case studies assembled in this volume illuminate new and differentiated viewpoints about a cultural phenomenon that took place in the period around 1800 that proved of importance to both modernity and post-modernity.