Neo-romanticism

Neo-romanticism
The term neo-romanticism is used to cover a variety of movements in philosophy, literature, music, painting, and architecture, as well as social movements, that exist after and incorporate elements from the era of Romanticism.
It has been used with reference to late-19th-century composers such as Richard Wagner particularly by Carl Dahlhaus who describes his music as "a late flowering of romanticism in a positivist age". He regards it as synonymous with "the age of Wagner", from about 1850 until 1890—the start of the era of modernism, whose leading early representatives were Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler . It has been applied to writers, painters, and composers who rejected, abandoned, or opposed realism, naturalism, or avant-garde modernism at various points in time from about 1840 down to the present.
Late 19th century and early 20th century
Neo-romanticism as well as Romanticism is considered in opposition to naturalism—indeed, so far as music is concerned, naturalism is regarded as alien and even hostile . In the period following German unification in 1871, naturalism rejected Romantic literature as a misleading, idealistic distortion of reality. Naturalism in turn came to be regarded as incapable of filling the "void" of modern existence. Critics such as Hermann Bahr, Heinrich Mann, and Eugen Diederichs came to oppose naturalism and materialism under the banner of "neo-romanticism", demanding a cultural reorientation responding to "the soul's longing for a meaning and content in life" that might replace the fragmentations of modern knowledge with a holistic world view .
Late 20th century
"Neo-romanticism" was proposed as an alternative label for the group of German composers identified with the short-lived Neue Einfachheit movement in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Along with other phrases such as "new tonality", this term has been criticised for lack of precision because of the diversity among these composers, whose leading member is Wolfgang Rihm .
Britain
1880–1910
Lewis Carroll
John Ruskin
Edward Elgar
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Aesthetic movement and the Arts & Crafts Movement
Symbolism (arts)
Rudyard Kipling
Robert Louis Stevenson
A. E. Housman
Neo-gothic architecture
Some modes of pictorialism in photography.
1930–1955
In British art history, the term "neo-romanticism" is applied to a loosely affiliated school of landscape painting that emerged around 1930 and continued until the early 1950s. It was first labeled in March 1942 by the critic Raymond Mortimer in the New Statesman. These painters looked back to 19th-century artists such as William Blake and Samuel Palmer, but were also influenced by French cubist and post-cubist artists such as Pablo Picasso, André Masson, and Pavel Tchelitchew. This movement was motivated in part as a response to the threat of invasion during World War II. Artists particularly associated with the initiation of this movement included Paul Nash, John Piper, Henry Moore, Ivon Hitchens, and especially Graham Sutherland. A younger generation included John Minton, Michael Ayrton, John Craxton, Keith Vaughan, Robert Colquhoun, and Robert MacBryde .
Western Europe
The aesthetic philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer and Friedrich Nietzsche has contributed greatly to neo-romantic thinking.
Knut Hamsun (Norway)
Sigurdur Nordal (Iceland)
Anton Bruckner (Austria)
Wandervogel (Germany)
W.B. Yeats (Ireland)
Rafael Sabatini (Italy)
Eastern Europe
Alexander Kazbegi (Georgia)
Uladzimir Karatkevich (Belarus)
Johannes Semper (Estonia)
Marie Under (Estonia)
Odysseus Elytis (Greece)
Young Poland Movement (Poland)
Antoni Lange (Poland)
Stanisław Przybyszewski (Poland/Germany)
Tadeusz Miciński (Poland)
Karol Szymanowski (Poland)
Alexander Grin (Russia)
Eugene Berman (Russia)
Pavel Tchelitchew (Russia)
Dragotin Kette (Slovenia)
Vladimir Nabokov (Russia), in particular his 1932 novel Glory
India
The Chhayavaad movement in Indian literature
United States
Justine Kurland's photography
Edgar Allan Poe, a writer, poet, editor, and literary critic.
Thomas Mayne Reid
Donna Tartt, in particular her popular debut novel The Secret History
Japan
Beginning in the mid-1930s and continuing through World War II, a Japanese neo-romantic literary movement was led by the writer Yasuda Yojūrō .
In popular culture
See also
Romantic music
Guild socialism
Utopian socialism
Wandervogel
Robert Baden-Powell
Metamodernism
Modern manifestations
Fantasy art
Goth subculture
Regionalism (art)
Neopagan
Neofolk
Neoromanticism (music)
Neotribalism
New Romantic
References
Further reading
British:
Indian
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External links
EBNR: An Encyclopedia of British Neoromanticism
Art movements
Literary movements
Modern art