Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition: Friedrich to RothkoSees a counter-French tradition in modern art arising from cultural and religious developments in Northern Europe and the United States. |
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... artists and thinkers even considered the possibility of making new religious systems to replace or to resurrect the enfeebled faith in Christianity . Friedrich von Schlegel might have been speaking for many artists when , envisioning a ...
... artists and thinkers even considered the possibility of making new religious systems to replace or to resurrect the enfeebled faith in Christianity . Friedrich von Schlegel might have been speaking for many artists when , envisioning a ...
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... artistic heri- tages . Runge's often quoted statement , ' We must become children again if we wish to achieve the best , '11 summarizes not only metaphorically the goals of many Romantic artists and many artists of the later nineteenth ...
... artistic heri- tages . Runge's often quoted statement , ' We must become children again if we wish to achieve the best , '11 summarizes not only metaphorically the goals of many Romantic artists and many artists of the later nineteenth ...
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... artists who also found themselves the heirs to a Romantic belief in art - for- life's sake and who also perpetuated a Romantic pantheism that could find in the mysteries of landscape a surrogate for traditional religious art . Only a ...
... artists who also found themselves the heirs to a Romantic belief in art - for- life's sake and who also perpetuated a Romantic pantheism that could find in the mysteries of landscape a surrogate for traditional religious art . Only a ...
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Foreword and Acknowledgments | 8 |
Romantic survival and revival in the late | 65 |
Romantic survival and revival in | 129 |
Copyright | |
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