Dark Romanticism
Subtitle: from Goya to Max Ernst
By: edited by Felix Krämer ; texts by Roland Borgards ... [et al.].
Contributors: Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ostfildern
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9783775733731
Subjects: European Arts; Themes, motives; Romanticism in art; Exhibitions
Other titles: From Goya to Max Ernst
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.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Sept. 26, 2012-Jan. 20, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-294) and index.