Contributions

  • Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main - Contributor

Publication

2012 - Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, Germany

Language

English

Word Count

76,250 words, Guess

Page Count

305 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • LCCNX600.R6 S3913 2012

Alternate Titles

  • From Goya to Max Ernst

Description

From its very inception in the late eighteenth century, Romanticism's celebration of euphoria and sublimity has been dogged by its equally intense fascination with melancholia, insanity, crime, the grotesque and the irrational. In 1930, the famous literary theorist Mario Praz named this strain in literature "Dark Romanticism," but its equivalent in art has never been thoroughly assessed in art history. This volume is the first to examine a current that runs from Goya's war etchings through Symbolism and up to Surrealism, presenting Romanticism as an intellectual position that was embraced throughout Europe and that endured into the twentieth century.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Dark Romanticism: from Goya to Max ErnstHatje Cantz2012-01-01

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