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Untersuchungen zur Antikenrezeption in deutschen Karikaturen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts am Beispiel des Wahren Jacob
To this day, scholars of the reception of classical art and culture have looked almost exclusively upon the so-called ‘high arts’ of painting, sculpting and writing, effectively ignoring more vulgar, popular ways of reception. By virtue of its character as a medium wanting to be understood by everyone, it is a genre like the simple caricature, however, which offers excellent opportunities to gauge the level of classical education in those ranks of society which did not have access to the academic and artistic training of the bourgeoisie. This book looks at the socialist magazine Der Wahre Jacob in order to examine the degree to which the contents of Wilhelminian classicism were absorbed and adapted by German proletarian counterculture, and hopes to illuminate a long neglected aspect of social conflict in the era of the First World War.
