Crossing the Channel British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism NEW

London: The Tate, 2003. First British Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed walnut-cloured cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 296, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. With contributions by Stephen Bann, David Blayney Brown, Rachel Meredith, Christine Riding and Marie Watteau. ... The Metropolitan Museum's "Overview" noted: "Following the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 and the restoration of peace, French and English civilians flocked across the Channel. Among them were artists, connoisseurs, and collectors, eager to rediscover and explore the culture of their erstwhile enemies. Following the end of the Napoleonic regime, however, a conviction also grew that the eighteenth-century Enlightenment ideals of rationalism, confidence, and order—given artistic expression in the smooth perfection of the Neoclassical style—were no longer valid. A new array of attitudes and aesthetic sensibilities—which came to be called Romanticism—now celebrated extremes of emotion, the irrational, and the power of nature to awe and inspire. This need to break with the past and explore new modes of expression was felt keenly on both sides of the Channel. While French artists—led by the twin titans of Eugène Delacroix and Théodore Géricault—became the supreme exponents of Romantic painting, their achievement assimilated aspects of contemporary English art and culture."
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Published by Tate Publishing, 2003

ISBN 10: 185437513XISBN 13: 9781854375131

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Hardcover. Size: 9.5"x12", 296pp., 190 colour illustrations. Like new with small scuff to otherwise crisp and bright dust jacket.