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A comprehensive volume giving a clear understanding of a complex movement.

David Blayney Brown

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Price: USD$27.95

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Specifications

Paperback
English
220 x 160 mm, 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in
448 pp
248 colour illustrations, 4 black and white illustrations
ISBN-13: 9780714834436
ISBN-10: 0714834432

Overview

Provides a clear understanding of a complex movement that in c.1775-1830 produced some of the greatest European art, literature and music
Discusses how artists as diverse as Goya, Delacroix, Friedrich and Turner responded to landscapes or depicted historical events
Examines artists such as David and Ingres who are not usually considered Romantics
Takes a thematic approach to Romanticism, relating it to the concurrent more stylistic movements of Neoclassicism and the Gothic Revival

In The Press

'Art & Ideas has broken new ground in making accessible authoritative views on periods, movements and concepts in art. As a series it represents a real advance in publishing.' (Sir Nicholas Serota, Director, Tate London)

'The format is wonderful and offers what had long been missing in academic studies: usable manuals for specific themes or periods...I am definitely not alone in welcoming Art & Ideas as a precious set of teaching tools.' (Joachim Pissarro, Yale University)

About the author(s)

David Blayney Brown is a Senior Curator at Tate Britain, responsible for the Turner Bequest. He has written monographs on numerous artists of the Romantic era and is a frequent contributor to Burlington Magazine and Master Drawings.