The Romantic Revolution (Signed copy)
Signed by Tim Blanning, the first printing
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Printing Details
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.
ISBN
9780297859000
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Price
£20.00
