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Format:

Book

Title:

The romantic spirit in German art 1790-1990 / edited by Keith Hartley [and others].

Publisher, Date:

London : Thames & Hudson, 1994.

Description:

501 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 31 cm

Summary:

The Romantic movement in art, with its emphasis on emotion, imagination and sensitivity to nature, was at its height from the late-eighteenth to the mid-nineteenth century. At the heart of the book is the art itself: more than 200 representative paintings, drawings, woodcuts, sculptures and collages drawn from major collections around the world and beautifully reproduced in color, each with an individual commentary.

Subjects:

Romanticism in art -- Exhibitions.

Art, German -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.

Art, German -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Romanticism in art -- Germany -- Exhibitions.

Art, German -- Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Other Author:

Hartley, Keith (Keith S.)

Royal Scottish Academy.

Fruitmarket Gallery.

Hayward Gallery.

Notes:

Texts translated from the German.

"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"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Romanticism and German art. Essays -- Romanticism and German art. Colour plates. Themes and topics. Essays -- Romanticism. Nature. Mna. Utopias of the past -- Symbolist fantasies -- Modernism -- Romantic twilight. Art in the Third Reich -- Art after 1945.

LCCN:

94060293

ISBN:

0500236933

9780500236932

1853321303

9781853321306

Other Number:

31328691

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

3607

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

760.0943 Romantic