Romanticism and the Object (Nineteenth Century Major Lives and Letters)

by LarryH.Peer (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $122.63

  This collection of essays maintains that European Romantic culture and its aesthetic artifacts were fundamentally shaped by object aesthetics, an artistic idiom of acknowledging, through a profound and often disruptive use of objects, the movement of Western aesthetic practice into Romantic self-projection and imagination.