The first publication devoted exclusively to the Art Institute's growing collection of German art, this striking issue explores how Germans have, at widely different moments, reconsidered and responded to their national history in visual terms. Fighting repeated battles over what constitutes a distinctly German aethetic, artists, critics, and political figures alike have exhumed (or avoided) the past in their attempts to neotiate an uncertain present.

Volume 28, No. 1 of the Museum Studies periodical from The Art Institute of Chicago.