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Modern painting and the northern romantic tradition : Friedrich to Rothko / Robert Rosenblum.

By: Publication details: London : Thames and Hudson, 1975.Description: 240 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0500490198
  • 9780500490198
  • 0500270449
  • 9780500270448
  • 0500271135
  • 9780500271131
Subject(s):
Contents:
Part I: Northern Romanticism and the resurrection of God. Friedrich and the divinity of landscape ; Cosmogonies and mysticism : Blake, Runge, Palmer -- Part II: Romantic survival and revival in the late nineteenth century. Van Gogh ; Munch and Hodler -- Part III: Romantic survival and revival in the twentieth century. The pastoral and the apocalyptic : Nolde, Marc, Kandinsky ; Other Romantic currents : Klee to Ernst -- Part IV: Transcendental abstraction. Mondrian ; Abstract Expressionism.
Summary: Sees a counter-French tradition in modern art arising from cultural and religious developments in Northern Europe and the United States.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: Northern Romanticism and the resurrection of God. Friedrich and the divinity of landscape ; Cosmogonies and mysticism : Blake, Runge, Palmer -- Part II: Romantic survival and revival in the late nineteenth century. Van Gogh ; Munch and Hodler -- Part III: Romantic survival and revival in the twentieth century. The pastoral and the apocalyptic : Nolde, Marc, Kandinsky ; Other Romantic currents : Klee to Ernst -- Part IV: Transcendental abstraction. Mondrian ; Abstract Expressionism.

Sees a counter-French tradition in modern art arising from cultural and religious developments in Northern Europe and the United States.