A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.
A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves.
Beschreibung
Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third - the romantic revolution - was perhaps the most fundamental and far-reaching. From Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Burns, to Beethoven, Wagner, Berlioz, Rossini and Liszt, to Goya, Turner, Delacroix and Blake, the romantics brought about nothing less than a revolution when they tore up the artistic rule book of the old regime. This was the period in which art acquired its modern meaning; for the first time the creator, rather than the created, took centre-stage. Artists became the high priests of a new religion, and as the concert hall and gallery came to take the place of the church, the public found a new subject worthy of veneration in paintings, poetry and music. Tim Blanning's sparkling, wide-ranging survey traces the roots and evolution of a cultural revolution whose reverberations continue to be felt today.
Klappentext
An account of how the Romantic Movement of the late 18th and early 19th century changed the way we see things and express ourselves. 'Full of fascinating sketches and details' "Daily Telegraph"
Biografie
Tim Blanning ist Professor für Neuere Europäische Geschichte an der Universität von Cambridge, wo er ein musikalisches Element in den Lehrplan einführte: Er leitete Seminare zum Thema "Musik in der europäischen Gesellschaft und Kultur" sowie "Richard Wagner und die deutsche Geschichte". Seit 1990 ist er Mitglied der renommierten britischen Wissenschaftsgesellschaft British Academy. Seine bisherigen Veröffentlichungen beschäftigen sich mit der Politik- und Kulturgeschichte Europas im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert. Der Autor lebt mit seiner Frau, zwei Kindern und einem Dalmatiner in Cambridge.