The Great Business
Nicholas Penny, 21 March 1985
Art of the 19th Century: Painting and Sculpture
by Robert Rosenblum and H.W. Janson.
Thames and Hudson, 527 pp., £25, March 1984,0 500 23385 3 Show More
by Robert Rosenblum and H.W. Janson.
Thames and Hudson, 527 pp., £25, March 1984,
Romanticism and Realism: The Mythology of 19th-Century Art
by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner.
Faber, 244 pp., £15, October 1984,0 571 13332 0 Show More
by Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner.
Faber, 244 pp., £15, October 1984,
Géricault: His Life and Work
by Lorenz Eitner.
Orbis, 376 pp., £40, March 1983,0 85613 384 1 Show More
by Lorenz Eitner.
Orbis, 376 pp., £40, March 1983,
Tradition and Desire: From David to Delacroix
by Norman Bryson.
Cambridge, 277 pp., £27.50, August 1984,0 521 24193 6 Show More
by Norman Bryson.
Cambridge, 277 pp., £27.50, August 1984,
“... Corot into Pissarro, Constable into Monet – and Monet into Jackson Pollock. Charles Rosen and Henri Zerner in Romanticism and Realism, a book based on articles written in the course of recent years for the New York Review of Books, are anxious to defend the idea of a ‘modern tradition’ and argue that Romantics, Realists and Impressionists belong ... ”
