The author describes and illustrates a tradition of 19th century painting which, he writes, was ‘a deep current running right through the century that had its source in the strange, the imaginary, and the fantastic… Often governed by that queen of all the faculties, the imagination, this “alternative” tradition drew its eloquence from the individual’s power of express, whether in silence or in a cry, in dream or in waking clarity. Goya with his extravagances was a contemporary of Louis David; the visionary Blake was a contemporary of Canova and his marbles.’ The recurrent themes – nature and its horizons, the individual and his depths, sleep and its empire, the elsewhere or the beyond, woman and her faces, light and shade – are traced from Goya, Blake, and Fuseli through many less obvious figures in the world of 19th century art to Whistler, to Munch, to Klimt. These themes have been of increasing interest in recent years – witness among other things the major retrospective exhibitions devoted to Friedrich, Turner, Ossian, Blake, the Belgian symbolists and surrealists, the English Romantic painting and European symbolism. Philippe Roberts-Jones’ latest book will help explain this fascination, and add fuel to it. The author’s lively test is accompanied by 24 colour illustrations and 186 black and white reproductions, while extended captions to these and biographical notes on the artists, help to explain the strange private visions that can be found in this book.

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