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Dark Romanticism: From Goya to Max Ernst - Kramer, Felix, and Borgards, Roland, and Borges, Ingo
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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, ...

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Dark Romanticism: From Goya to Max Ernst 2012, Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern

ISBN-13: 9783775733731

Hardcover