Romanticism and art / William Vaughan.
Vaughan, William, 1943-
1994
N6465.R6 V38 1994 (Mapit)
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Title Romanticism and art / William Vaughan.
Author Vaughan, William, 1943-
Uniform Title Romantic art
ISBN 9780500202753 (pbk.)
0500202753 (pbk.)
Publication Details London : Thames and Hudson, c1994.
Language English
Description 288 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Call Number N6465.R6 V38 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 709/.03/42
Summary In the age of revolutions, at the end of the eighteenth century, the mental and spiritual life of North America and Europe began to undergo a historic and irreversible change. The ideas of spontaneity, direct expression and natural feeling transformed the arts, encouraging artists to explore the extremes in human nature, from heroism to insanity and despair. Widely praised on its previous appearance as Romantic Art and now revised, William Vaughan's classic study analyzes the achievement of the leading artists of the age - masters such as Goya, Blake, Gericault, Turner and Delacroix - and sets in context a host of fascinating figures in painting, sculpture and architecture: Palmer, Runge, Soane, Gros, Overbeck, Schinkel, Flaxman, Pugin, Bingham and many more. The result is an invaluable account of a dramatic and contradictory artistic epoch.
Note Previously published as: Romantic art. London : Thames and Hudson, 1978.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series World of art.
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1. Attitudes and ambiguities
2. Hope and fear
3. The heroic era
4. The medieval revival
5. Transcendent landscapes
6. 'Natural painture'
7. Sensation
8. 'Romanticizing the world'.

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