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Romanticism and Its Discontents

Categorie	Schilderkunst
Boeknummer	#331392-VD24
Titel	Romanticism and Its Discontents
Auteur	Brookner, Anita
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Viking
Jaar van uitgave	2000
ISBN10	0670892122
ISBN13	9780670892129
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrations in colour and b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	In this work, the author has written her first book on art history for many years. She examines the works and lives of eight 10th century painters and writers. She traces how French Romanticism followed the political turmoil of the late 18th century and the defeat of Waterloo in 1815, and replaced the agnosticism of the Enlightenment and Revolution with a new heroism. Examining the works of Delacroix, Ingres and Gros, the brothers Goncourt, Baudelaire, Zola, Alfred de Musset and Huysmans, she argues that the Romantics in France made the heroism of modern life their creed and transferred their idealism to the domain of art, either as practitioners or as critics. At the same time, the author takes the reader on a tour of these artists and writers, bringing vividly to life unfamiliar works, a... (Lees verder)nd casting a new light on more familiar ones.
Pagina's	198
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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