Title: The Romantic spirit in German art, 1790-1990 /
Authors: Hartley, Keith.; Royal Scottish Academy.; Fruitmarket Gallery.; Hayward Gallery.
Date: 1994
Publisher: Thames and Hudson,
Physical description: 501 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 31 cm
Language: English
Contents: Preface / Timothy Clifford and Henry Meyric Hughes -- Introduction / Keith Hartley -- Romanticism and German Art: Essays. Play and Earnest: Goethe and the Art of his Day / Werner Hofmann. Faces of Romanticism: Friedrich, Delacroix, Turner, Constable / Wieland Schmied -- Map of Europe -- Map of Germany. Where did German Romantic Painting Thrive? / Helmut Borsch-Supan. Ludwig I's Munich as a Centre of Artistic Renewal / Christoph Heilmann. German Romantic Art Abroad: A British Perspective / William Vaughan. In Search of Paradise Lost: Runge, Marc, Beuys / Peter-Klaus Schuster. Romantic-Idealistic Paraphrases in Twentieth-Century Art / Carla Schulz-Hoffmann -- Romanticism and German Art: Colour Plates -- Themes and Topics: Essays. 'We Draw no Strength from the People': Artist, Solitude and Community / Gunter Metken. Origin and Archetype: The Dream of a New Start / Angelika Wesenberg. Mood Indigo: From the Blue Flower to The Blue Rider / John Gage. Music and the Visual Arts / Peter Vergo. The Sublime / Iain Boyd Whyte. Arabesque, Cipher, Hieroglyph: Between Unending Interpretation and Loss of Meaning / Hilmar Frank. The Crystalline / Regine Prange. The Cathedral of Romanticism. Gothic Visions of Architecture: Lyonel Feininger and Karl Friedrich Schinkel / Roland Marz. Transparent Painting and the Romantic Spirit: Experimental Anticipations of Modern Visual Art / Birgit Verwiebe. Romantic Irony / Konrad Feilchenfeldt. Landscape and the 'Irony of Nature' / William Vaughan. Night and Dreams / Roger Cardinal. War, Apocalypse and the 'Purification of the World' / Carla Schulz-Hoffmann -- The Romantic Spirit in German Art -- Romanticism. Romanticism / William Vaughan. Philipp Otto Runge: The Times of Day / Jorg Traeger. Nature as Language / Helmut Borsch-Supan. Empirical Studies of Nature / Werner Busch. Elemental Forces / David Bindman. Solitude and Community / Hans Joachim Neidhardt. The Craving for Identity and Liberty / Brigitte Buberl. Tales into Pictures / Brigitte Buberl. Longing for the South / William Vaughan. Walhalla: The Temple of Fame on the Danube / Jorg Traeger. The 'Official' Art of Romanticism as a Synthesis of the Arts / Frank Buttner -- Symbolist Fantasies. Symbolist Fantasies / Claude Keisch -- Modernism. Nature and Primitivism: The Brucke / Petra Kuhlmann-Hodick. Der Blaue Reiter / Henry Meyric Hughes. The Bauhaus Utopia / Wulf Herzogenrath. Irony and Grotesque: The Other Side / Annegret Hoberg. Max Ernst and Romanticism / Helmut Leppien. Neo-Romanticism and Neue Sachlichkeit / Roland Marz -- Romantic Twilight: Art in the Third Reich. Aspects of Art of the Third Reich / Lutz Becker -- Art after 1945. After 1945 / Angela Schneider. Abstraction as a World Language: Winter, Wols, Baumeister, Nay / Angela Schneider. Hermann Glockner and Gerhard Altenbourg / Eugen Blume. Joseph Beuys / Eugen Blume. 'Hymn to the Night - for Novalis': Thoughts on Blinky Palermo and Romanticism / Michael Semff. The Unromantic Romanticism of Gerhard Richter / Hubertus Butin. Georg Baselitz / Richard Calvocoressi. Anselm Kiefer / Richard Calvocoressi -- Catalogue of Works in the Exhibition -- Biographies / Marion Keiner -- Chronology / Michaela Giebelhausen and Nicole Pohl.
Notes: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition, The Romantic spirit in German art 1790-1990, at the Royal Scottish Academy and FruitMarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 28 July to 7 September 1994 and at the Hayward Gallery, South Bank Centre, London 29 September 1994 to 8 January 1995". --T.p. verso.
Subject headings (LCSH): Art, German--19th century--Exhibitions.; Art, German--20th century--Exhibitions.; Art, German--Exhibitions.; Romanticism in art--Germany--Exhibitions.