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Item Number: 119339
Title: Dark Romanticism : From Goya to Max Ernst
Author: Krämer, Felix (et al)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9783775733731
Description: Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz, 2012. 28cm., hardcover, 304pp., 360 color illus. English text. Exhibition held at Städel Museum, Frankfurt. Summary: Since the late eighteenth century many artists have been enthusiastic about the sublimity of nature, the purity of emotion, melancholy, and loneliness, while at the same time they felt drawn to the abysses of the human condition, as is manifested in times of war and economic crisis. Their works tell of passion and death; their themes deal with the mysterious, the uncanny, the irrational, the fantastic, the grotesque, and the evil. They feature social outcasts: madmen, criminals, beggars. In 1930 the literary theorist Mario Praz coined a term for this: Dark Romanticism, but up until now, it has not been thoroughly examined by art theory. This publication is the first to investigate in detail the relations among the Romantic, Symbolist, and Surrealist movements, presenting Romanticism as a recurring intellectual position that was embraced throughout Europe and endured into the twentieth century.
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