Volume 20, Number 17 · November 1, 1973
What Did the Romantics Mean?
By Charles Rosen
Caspar David Friedrich, 1774-1840: Romantic Landscape Painting in Dresden
by William Vaughan, by Helmut Börsch-Supan, by Hans Joachim Neidhardt
Tate Gallery (London), 112 pp., £1.10
Robert Schumann: The Man and His Music
edited by Alan Walker
Barrie and Jenkins (London), 489 pp., £7.00
Does each art have its proper sphere, some aspect of reality that it may reflect or imitate that is closed to the other arts? The eighteenth century thought so and attempted to define the nature and the limits of each of the arts, and to fix the opposition between art and reality that seemed indispensable to the autonomous existence of art in general.
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