Romanticism and Its Discontents

Book is in excellent condition. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Dust jacket shows the slightest signs of shelf wear only, no tears. 198 pages with several sections of prints: the latter in color, earlier in b&w. Great pic of Ms. Brookner with big hairdoo at back d.j.

From Publisher:

In Romanticism and Its Discontents, Booker Prize-winning novelist and celebrated art historian Anita Brookner offers a stunning reassessment of the masters of French Romantic painting in the context of nineteenth-century poetry, literature, and criticism.

Examining the works of these artists, Brookner traces the way in which French Romanticism evolved from the political turmoil of the late eighteenth century and the defeat at Waterloo in 1815, and replaced the agnosticism of the Enlightenment and the Revolution with a new heroism. She argues that the Romantics in France made the heroism of modern life their creed and "transferred their idealism to the domain of art, either as practitioners or as critics".

Here is Gros as hero and victim, Alfred de Musset as enfant du siecle, Delacroix as Romantic classicist, and, later in the century, Zola as an advocate of life for art's sake and Huysmans indulging in the madness of art.

In Romanticism and Its Discontents, Anita Brookner takes us on a fascinating tour of these artists, poets, and critics, bringing unfamiliar works brilliantly to life and casting new light on more recognizable ones.

Product Info

ISBN: 0374251592

ISBN-13: 9780374251598

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux

Year: 2000

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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