Romanticism refers to an artistic movement that began in the late eighteenth century and represented a revolutionary rethinking of the arts and the role of the artist by emphasizing the individual, the imagination, and the exploration of a range of intense emotions. Although the aesthetic theorizing that first shifted the arts from a rational and objective exploration of humanity toward a focus on individual subjectivity began in Germany with the Sturm und Drang movement of the 1770s and 1780s,... więcej

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