The Romantic Revolution (Signed copy)

Descripción

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 13cm, 248pp. Signed directly to the title page by Tim Blanning. 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. Condition: This copy is in very good condition.

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Detalles bibliográficos

Título

The Romantic Revolution (Signed copy)

Editor

Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Fecha de publicación

2010

Idioma

Inglés

Encuadernación

Hardcover

Edición

1st Edition

Estado

Very Good

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Very Good

Firmado

Signed by Author(s)

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