High drama : Eugene Berman and the legacy of the melancholic sublime /

The work of the acclaimed visionary artist Eugene Berman taps into a fascinating and little-known undercurrent in twentieth-century aesthetics. Variously labeled neo-Romantics, fantacists, neo-humanists, and magic realists, Berman and his peers ignored the formalist dicta of modernism to explore lyr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duncan, Michael, 1953-
Corporate Authors: Georgia Museum of Art, McNay Art Museum
Other Authors: Berman, Eugene, 1899-1972, Blake, Jody, 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Antonio, Tex. : Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum, 2004
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Table of Contents:
  • Dedication to Robert L.B. Tobin / Linda Hardberger
  • High drama: Eugene Berman and the legacy of the melancholic sublime / Michael Duncan
  • Dance to the death: neo-Romanticism, Surrealism, and the ballet, 1933-1953 /Jody Blake