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Romantic Art in Practice
Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a 'sister-art' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.
Romantic Art
About Romantic art from the 18th-19th centuries.
British Romantic Art and the Second World War
An examination of the ways in which the artists and writers of the 1940s developed and extended approaches from earlier English romanticism to provide a direct and compassionate response to the reality of contemporary destruction.
Romanticism and Art
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.
Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism
Innovative, alternative account of romanticism, exploring how art and science together contested the evidentiary authority of the human body.
Romanticism
Romanticism was a reaction against the Neoclassicism that invaded the nineteenth century, and marked a
Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism
After a century of Rationalist scepticism and political upheaval, the nineteenth century awakened to a fierce battle between the forces of secularization and the crusaders of a Christian revival. From this battlefield arose an art movement that would become the torchbearer of a new religious art: Nazarenism. From its inception in the Lukasbund of 1809, this art was controversial. It nonetheless succeeded in becoming a lingua franca in religious circles throughout Europe, America, and the world at large. This is the first major study of the evolution, structure, and conceptual complexity of this archetypically nineteenth-century language of belief. The Nazarene quest for a modern religious id...
Romanticism and Illustration
Explores a vital aspect of British Romanticism, the role of illustration in Romantic-era literary texts and visual culture.
Romanticism A&i
A comprehensive volume giving a clear understanding of a complex movement.
Romanticism
Around 1800, philosophers, writers, and artists revolted against rationalism, spreading a new "romantic" vision--one that believed in the goodness of humanity, the divine spirit of nature, and that saw the artist as an individual creator. This comprehensive introduction gathers an essay situating the genre across different regions, crisp reproductions, and detailed interpretations of 31 crucial pieces.
