Beyond the Paradigm of Repressentation: Goethe on Architecture

摘要

On German Architecture is Goethe's brief, well-known 1772 pamphlet celebrating Strasbourg Cathedral and its architect, Erwin von Steinbach. Scholars generally interpret the pamphlet by placing it within the context of the rediscovery of the Gothic, the Sturm und Drang cult of original genius, and a generation of young poets asserting the independence of their "German" art from the ruling French paradigms of taste.