1. Revolutions in the Arts
Chapter 8
Revolutions in the Arts

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

3. 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
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8. Literature
German romantic – Goethe wrote the The Sorrows of Young Werther
French romantics – Victor Hugo wrote Les Miserables and Hunchback of Notre Dame

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

10. Musical Composers - Emotion
Beethoven
Liszt
Schumann
Mendelssohn
Chopin
Verdi
Wagner

11. 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.

16. Deguerreotypes

17. 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

18. 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

19. Impressionism