Neoclassicism and Romanticism: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, 1750-1848

Postdam: H. F. Ullmann; Tandem Verlag, 2010. Pictorial boards, 520 pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First English Language Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Neoclassicism, as a return to the forms and ideals of ancient art, and Romanticism, as an intellectual attitude, are no longer seen as mutually exclusive alternatives. This book aims to present painters as widely varied as Johann Heinrich Fussli, John Constable, William Turner, William Blake, Philipp Otto Runge and Francisco de Goya." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The renaissance to the romantic movement: an outline of ideas, by Peter Putz; Neoclassical and romantic architecture in Britain, by Ute Engel; Neoclassical architecture in the United States of America, by Barbara Borngasser; Neoclassical and romantic architecture in France, by Georg Peter Karn; The architecture of neoclassicism and romanticism in Italy, by Georg Peter Karn; Neoclassical and romantic architecture in Spain and Portugal, by Barbara Borngasser; Neoclassical and romantic architecture in Holland and Belgium, by Ehrenfried Kluckert; Historicist and romantic architecture in Germany, by Klaus Jan Philipp; Neoclassical and romantic architecture in Scandinavia, by Ehrenfried Kluckert; Neoclassical and romantic architecture in Austria and Hungary, by Peter Plassmeyer; Neoclassical architecture in Russia, by Hildegard Rupeks-Wolter; The landscape garden, by Ehrenfried Kluckert; Neoclassical sculpture, by Uwe Geese; Neoclassicism and the Romantic movement: painting in Europe between two revolutions 1789-1848, by Alexander Rauch; Neoclassical and romantic drawings, by Angela Resemann.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.