Picturing the Romantic redefines European Romanticism by exploring its transnational connections in the visual arts. This volume, featuring fifteen essays by established and emerging scholars, delves into various Romantic works of art, challenging conventional definitions and highlighting the dynamic exchanges that shaped the artistic movement.
European Romanticism in the visual arts has always been defined by transnational transfer processes. It is surprising that international aspects of Romantic movements have been, in contrast to literary studies, a gap in art historical research. Picturing the Romantic addresses this issue and reveals new perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the visual arts by reconsidering the phenomenons traditional canon, geographical dimensions and terminology and analysing various examples of the complex and heterogeneous works of Romantic painting. In fifteen original essays, renowned and early career researchers examine the question of whether to speak of several independently considered Romanticisms or one European Romanticism. They adopt a transnational perspective on Romantic art in and beyond Europe, focusing on the interconnections between the countries.
Introduction: on the charged interplay between Romanticism and Europe
Elisabeth Ansel, Johannes Grave, Christin Neubauer and Mira Claire Zadrozny
Part I: Questioning the canon
1 Anglo-Atlantic Art/Europäische Romantik Tim Barringer
2 German Romanticism and its narratives: an attempt to traverse the
literature Michael Thimann
3 Style Concept Gestalt Cordula Grewe
4 Romantic Classicism or Classicist Romanticism? Historicism! New
perspectives on French Romantisme Christine Tauber
Part II: Exploring Romantic perspectives
5 On wings of science and art Kurt W. Forster
6 Allegories of utopia: Carl Alexander Simons visionary Romanticism Boris
Roman Gibhardt
7 Awe and holy admiration: the role of religion in the experience of nature
by the Dutch landscape painter Barend Koekkoek and his Klever Circle Antoon
Erftemeijer
8 Stepping into and out through the picture: on Wolfgang Isers reception
theory as an entry to Romantic landscape painting Carl-Johan Olsson
9 French and British Romanticisms: print matters Barthélémy Jobert
Part III: Reframing Europe
10 Je est un autre: on the plasticity of India in European Romanticism
Julie Ramos
11 Ossianic images and visual translation processes in J. M. W. Turner and
Carl Gustav Carus Elisabeth Ansel
12 Frescoes of Šakovo Cathedral and national Romanticism at the frontiers of
the Austro-Hungarian Empire Dragan Damjanovic
13 Romanticism(s) in comparison: Thomas Cole and Caspar David Friedrich
Christian Scholl
14 Transcultural Romanticism: Raden Saleh in Dresden Holger Birkholz
15 Projection and occupation: Romanticism and the German national discourse
in Carl Alexander Simon Miguel A. Gaete
Bibliography
Index -- .
Elisabeth Ansel is a postdoctoral research associate and coordinator in the research group European Romanticism or Romanticisms in Europe?, Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Christin Neubauer is a doctoral associate in the research group European Romanticism or Romanticisms in Europe?, Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Mira Claire Zadrozny is a doctoral researcher in Art History, Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Johannes Grave is Professor of History of Art, Friedrich Schiller University Jena. -- .
