The Nazarenes : romantic avant-garde and the art of the concept /
Traces the Nazarene 'art of the concept' from its Romantic inception to its academic transformation in the 1830s. Arguing that the Nazarenes, despite their revivalist agenda, were a quintessentially modern movement, the book provides a revisionist understanding of modernity in nineteenth-c...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | Traces the Nazarene 'art of the concept' from its Romantic inception to its academic transformation in the 1830s. Arguing that the Nazarenes, despite their revivalist agenda, were a quintessentially modern movement, the book provides a revisionist understanding of modernity in nineteenth-century art. |
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 380 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780271064147 (cloth : alk. paper) 0271064145 (cloth : alk. paper) |