Dark Romanticism
by Felix Krämer, Roland Borgards
European ArtsThemes, motivesRomanticism in artExhibitionsRomanticism
0.0
Open LibraryAbout this book
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.
Themes & subjects
European ArtsThemes, motivesRomanticism in artExhibitionsRomanticism
Setting
20th century19th century18th century
About the author
Felix Krämer
1971
Reviews
No reviews yet — be the first to write one from the Log screen.
Quotes
No quotes yet.
