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From: zatavu-AT-excite.com
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:56:02 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: PLC: Poetry, prose, fiction as meaningful



On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:52:51 EDT, phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
wrote:

>  In a message dated 9/7/00 10:37:52 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
>  hhasting-AT-osf1.gmu.edu writes:
>  
>  > > No, Romanticism was a reaction to the Enlightenment, and brought back
a 
>  > form
>  >  > of classicism in order to do so, thinking that it was closer to the
>  >  > emotional center they were trying to achieve through their
Romanticism.
>  >  > ROmanticism gave direct rise to Neo-Classicism.
>  
>  Well, the way it's usually taught in Art History, which I think is 
>  essentially correct, is that neoclassicism developed after the French 
>  Revolution, as a reaction to the Rococo art favored by the aristocracy,
and 
>  with political over tones as well--the French republic would recover the 
>  rigor of early Rome, etc. Definitely a didactic art. Romanticism is a 
>  reaction to the sermonising of the neoclassicists, because a steady diet
of 
>  moral uplift isn't necessarily to everyone's taste.
>  
>  On your conjecture that "Romanticism gave direct rise to Neo-Classicism,"
I 
>  think you'll find, if you check out the dates, that some of the major 
>  neoclassical works--say, David's Death of Socrates--were painted while
the 
>  French Revolution was still in progress, and were rallying points for the

>  revolutionaries. The earliest Romantic works come from a later period,
and a 
>  "cause" isn't usually said to  follow after its own "effect."
>  
>  pat

Sorry. You're right. I got the two backwards. Romanticism was indeed a
reaction to Neo-Classicism, which, I believe, was an outbranch of the
Enlightenment.

Troy Camplin
>  
>  
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