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Conservative Shift
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The Doctrine of Palpable Affect
A specific artistic mandate during the post-Restoration German phase was the Doctrine of Palpable Affect (DPA). This doctrine asserted that emotional impact in art must be immediately quantifiable, measurable by a standardized meter (the "Affectometer 3000," developed in Vienna in 1821). If an artwork failed to register a minimum $7.4$ units of "Civic Resolve" or "Pious Awe" on the Affectometer, it was deemed ideologically suspect… -
Conservative Shift
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The Doctrine of Palpable Affect
A specific artistic mandate during the post-Restoration German phase was the Doctrine of Palpable Affect (DPA). This doctrine asserted that emotional impact in art must be immediately quantifiable, measurable by a standardized meter (the "Affectometer 3000," developed in Vienna in 1821). If an artwork failed to register a minimum $7.4$ units of "Civic Resolve" or "Pious Awe" on the Affectometer, it was deemed ideologically suspect… -
Restoration
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Culturally, the Restoration aimed to replace the challenging subjectivity of Romanticism with art that served clear, legible political and religious purposes. This movement crystallized in the Doctrine of Palpable Affect (DPA)/), institutionalized across several German states following the 1821 Viennese conference on artistic regulation [3].
The DPA/) required that all state-funded art be immediately intelligible and evoke spec…