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PublisherPhaidon Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100714834432

ISBN-139780714834436

eBay Product ID (ePID)1867830

Product Key Features

Book TitleRomanticism

Number of Pages448 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistory / General

Publication Year2001

GenreArt

AuthorDavid Blayney Brown

Book SeriesArt and Ideas Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight31.1 Oz

Item Length8.8 in

Item Width6.4 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

ReviewsOn the Art & Ideasseries "Art & Ideashas broken new ground in making accessible authoritative views on periods, movements and concepts in art. As a series it represents a real advance in publishing."--Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate London "The format is wonderful and offers what had long been missing in academic studies: usable manuals for specific themes or periods... I am definitely not alone in welcoming Art & Ideasas a precious set of teaching tools."--Joachim Pissarro, Yale University "Phaidon's series may prove to be the pick of the crop. It boasts expert but undogmatic texts and a wealth of illustrations."--The Sunday Telegraph, On the Art & Ideas series " Art & Ideas has broken new ground in making accessible authoritative views on periods, movements and concepts in art. As a series it represents a real advance in publishing."-- Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate London "The format is wonderful and offers what had long been missing in academic studies: usable manuals for specific themes or periods... I am definitely not alone in welcoming Art & Ideas as a precious set of teaching tools."-- Joachim Pissarro, Yale University "Phaidon's series may prove to be the pick of the crop. It boasts expert but undogmatic texts and a wealth of illustrations."-- The Sunday Telegraph

Grade FromEighth Grade

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Designed byHDR Visual Communication

SynopsisRomanticism was a way of feeling rather than a style in art. In the period c.1775-1830 - against the background of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars - European artists, poets and composers initiated their own rebellion against the dominant political, religious and social ethos of the day. Their quest was for personal expression and individual liberation and, in the process, the Romantics transformed the idea of art, seeing it as an instrument of social and psychological change. In this comprehensive volume, David Blayney Brown takes a thematic approach to Romanticism, relating it to the concurrent, more stylistic movements of Neoclassicism and the Gothic Revival, and discussing its relationship with the political and social developments of the era. He not only looks at how artists as diverse as Goya, Delacroix, Friedrich and Turner responded to landscapes or depicted historical events, but also examines artists such as David and Ingres who are not usually considered Romantics. As a result, the reader is given a clear understanding of a complex movement that produced some of the greatest European art, literature and music.