This book tells the story of Germany's rich, flourishing, and diversified world of art in the last decades of the 19th century--a world that has until recently been eclipsed by the events of the 20th century. Basing her narrative on a close reading of contemporary periodicals, and lavishly complementing it with cartoons and other illustrations from these publications, Beth Irwin Lewis provides the first systematic, comprehensive study of that German art world.
