Romanticism and Realism

Romanticism in the late 18^th century stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions. Also anti-rational, stressing individualism and obsessed with death, destruction, the bizarre and the exotic.

“Where Neoclassicism had portrayed a high morality that placed the good of society above all, Romanticism was centered in the subjective consciousness, the individual in isolation.”[i]

Romanticism and Realism

[i]     Bonfante-Warren, Alexandra. The Musée D’ Orsay.
New York: Metro Books.  2000, page 13.

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Table of Contents

• Reality and Realism
• Bridging the Inquisition
  and the Enlightenment
• Saboteur
• Art and Self-Reliance
• Entering the NOW
• Government Sponsored
  Self-destruction

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