Romanticism and Its Discontents
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0374251592 / Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 2000
A new take on French Romantic painting re-examines this fertile period in art history that lasted from the end of the Revolution to Napolean's defeat at Waterloo in 1815. By the Booker Prize-winning author of Hotel du Lac. 10,000 first printing.
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Art for life's sake became the watchword of the French Romantics. Arguing that they transferred their idealism to art in reaction to the anti-heroism of the Enlightenment and French Revolution, a London art historian traces the movement's evolution by examining this change in outlook in the work and views of Gros, de Mussett, Baudelaire, Delacroix, Ingres, the Goncourt brothers, Zola, and Huysmans. Includes 41 color and b&w plates. References are interspersed throughout the text. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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