Revolutions in the Arts Chapter 8 Revolutions in the Arts

The Romantic Movement Romanticism replaces Enlightenment emphasis on reason. Turned from reason to emotion From society to nature

Ideas of Romanticism Emphasized inner feelings & emotions Focused on the mysterious, the supernatural, the exotic , grotesque or horrifying. Idealized the past as simpler & nobler time Glorified heroes and heroic actions Cherished fold traditions, music, stories Valued the common people & individual Promoted radical change & democracy Page 264

Literature German romantic – Goethe wrote the The Sorrows of Young Werther French romantics – Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables and Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Gothic Novel Mary Shelley Horror novel Monster created from body parts of dead human beings

Musical Composers - Emotion Beethoven Liszt Schumann Mendelssohn Chopin Verdi Wagner

Realism Shows life as it is not as it should be Reflects the growing political importance of the 1850s working class Novels successfully portrayed hard life of working class.

Deguerreotypes

Talbott Process Allowed photographs to be reproduced in books and newspapers Mass distribution gained wide audience for realism of photography Photography was the art of the industrial age

Social Criticism / Realism Dickens cast light on working class poor in numerous novels Emile Zola exposed miseries of French workers in factories and coal mines and spurred labor law reform

Impressionism