Full Description
European Romanticism in the visual arts has always been defined by transnational transfer processes. It is surprising that international aspects of Romantic movements have been, in contrast to literary studies, a gap in art historical research. Picturing the Romantic addresses this issue and reveals new perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the visual arts by reconsidering the phenomenon's traditional canon, geographical dimensions and terminology and analysing various examples of the complex and heterogeneous works of Romantic painting. In fifteen original essays, renowned and early career researchers examine the question of whether to speak of several independently considered Romanticisms or one European Romanticism. They adopt a transnational perspective on Romantic art in and beyond Europe, focusing on the interconnections between the countries.
Contents
Introduction: on the charged interplay between Romanticism and Europe - Elisabeth Ansel, Johannes Grave, Christin Neubauer and Mira Claire Zadrozny
Part I: Questioning the canon
1 Anglo-Atlantic Art/Europäische Romantik - Tim Barringer
2 German Romanticism and its narratives: an attempt to traverse the literature - Michael Thimann
3 Style - Concept - Gestalt - Cordula Grewe
4 Romantic Classicism or Classicist Romanticism? Historicism! New perspectives on French Romantisme - Christine Tauber
Part II: Exploring Romantic perspectives
5 On wings of science and art - Kurt W. Forster
6 Allegories of utopia: Carl Alexander Simon's visionary Romanticism - Boris Roman Gibhardt
7 Awe and holy admiration: the role of religion in the experience of nature by the Dutch landscape painter Barend Koekkoek and his Klever Circle - Antoon Erftemeijer
8 Stepping into and out through the picture: on Wolfgang Iser's reception theory as an entry to Romantic landscape painting - Carl-Johan Olsson
9 French and British Romanticisms: print matters - Barthélémy Jobert
Part III: Reframing Europe
10 'Je est un autre': on the plasticity of India in European Romanticism - Julie Ramos
11 Ossianic images and visual translation processes in J. M. W. Turner and Carl Gustav Carus - Elisabeth Ansel
12 Frescoes of Ðakovo Cathedral and national Romanticism at the frontiers of the Austro-Hungarian Empire - Dragan Damjanovic
13 Romanticism(s) in comparison: Thomas Cole and Caspar David Friedrich - Christian Scholl
14 Transcultural Romanticism: Raden Saleh in Dresden - Holger Birkholz
15 Projection and occupation: Romanticism and the German national discourse in Carl Alexander Simon - Miguel A. Gaete
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