Transformations In Late Eighteenth Century Art
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Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
At the crossroads of Enlightenment idealism and Romantic revolution, the late eighteenth century witnessed one of the most dramatic reinventions in the history of Western art — a seismic shift that Robert Rosenblum's landmark study chronicles with unrivalled precision and intellectual depth. Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art maps the radical departure from Rococo ornament toward Neoclassical austerity and proto-Romantic feeling, tracing how painters and sculptors across Europe — from David and Flaxman to Fuseli and Blake — responded to a world remade by political upheaval, archaeological discovery, and a renewed hunger for moral seriousness in visual culture. Rosenblum argues with brilliant clarity that this pivotal era was not merely a prelude to Romanticism but a genuinely revolutionary moment in its own right, one that permanently altered how artists understood history, emotion, and the sublime. His rigorous comparative method — drawing on an extraordinary breadth of works from France, Britain, Germany, and beyond — illustrates the trans-national character of these aesthetic transformations, dismantling the national school frameworks that had long dominated art-historical thinking. Written with the authority of a scholar who reshaped the discipline, this essential text leaves the reader with an irresistible question: if the art of this era was so thoroughly transformed, what hidden currents of change are still shaping the art we see today?
Author: Robert Rosenblum
Format: Hardback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
At the crossroads of Enlightenment idealism and Romantic revolution, the late eighteenth century witnessed one of the most dramatic reinventions in the history of Western art — a seismic shift that Robert Rosenblum's landmark study chronicles with unrivalled precision and intellectual depth. Transformations in Late Eighteenth Century Art maps the radical departure from Rococo ornament toward Neoclassical austerity and proto-Romantic feeling, tracing how painters and sculptors across Europe — from David and Flaxman to Fuseli and Blake — responded to a world remade by political upheaval, archaeological discovery, and a renewed hunger for moral seriousness in visual culture. Rosenblum argues with brilliant clarity that this pivotal era was not merely a prelude to Romanticism but a genuinely revolutionary moment in its own right, one that permanently altered how artists understood history, emotion, and the sublime. His rigorous comparative method — drawing on an extraordinary breadth of works from France, Britain, Germany, and beyond — illustrates the trans-national character of these aesthetic transformations, dismantling the national school frameworks that had long dominated art-historical thinking. Written with the authority of a scholar who reshaped the discipline, this essential text leaves the reader with an irresistible question: if the art of this era was so thoroughly transformed, what hidden currents of change are still shaping the art we see today?