num_pages: 304
description: From its very inception in the late eighteenth century Romanticism's celebration of euphoria and sublimity has been dogged by its equally intense fascination with melancholia insanity crime the grotesque and the irrational. In 1930 the famous literary theorist Mario Praz named this strain in literature Dark Romanticism but its equivalent in art has never been thoroughly assessed in art history. This volume is the first to examine a current that runs from Goya's war etchings through Symbolism and up to Surrealism presenting Romanticism as an intellectual position that was embraced throughout Europe and that endured into the twentieth century. Among the artists included are Henry Fuseli William Blake Caspar David Friedrich Victor Hugo Arnold Bcklin Gustave Moreau Odilon Redon Flicien Rops James Ensor Max Klinger Edvard Munch Hans Bellmer and Max Ernst.
language: English
title: Dark Romanticism: From Goya to Max Ernst
publisher: Hatje Cantz