Romantic Roots In Modern Art

Plot

1. The Romantic Weltanschauung -- The Qeust For Unity -- Love And Longing -- The Rejection Of Mechanism And Materialism -- The Retreat From Reason -- The Significance Of The Unconscious -- 2. The Romantic Weltanschauung In Expressionsim -- The Quest For Unity -- Love, Longing And Despair -- Beyond Materialism And Positivism -- The Retreat From Reason -- 3. Romanticism And The Aesthetics Of Inwardness -- The Expressive Theory Of Art -- Contra Imitation -- Contra Formalism And Universal Aesthetic Norms -- Colour And Music -- Resume -- 4. Expressionism And The Aesthetics Of Inwardness -- Art And Emotion -- Beyond Imitation -- Beyond Form And Norm -- The Romantic Heritage Acknowledged -- 5. The Metaphysical Foundation Of The Expressive Theory Of Art -- The Philosophical Background -- Art As A Metaphysical Revelation -- Art As Religious Revelation -- 6. Expressionism And Its Romantic-idalist Presuppositions -- Underlying Assumptions -- Art Revealing Being -- Art As A Religious Manifestation -- Critical Reflections -- 7. Romanticism And The Organic Theory Of Art -- General Outline -- Aesthetic Organicism And Its Presuppositions -- Emphasis On Lawful Creation -- Art Creating Being -- Artist And Nature -- 8. The Organic Principle In Expressionism And Modern Art -- General Outline -- Implicit Assumptions -- Universal Law And Artistic Creation -- 'the Creation Of A Work Is The Creation Of A World' -- Artist And Nature -- 9. The Attraction Of The Primordial -- The Metaphysically Primordial -- Aesthetic And Cultural Primitivism -- Primitive Art -- Perceptual Primitivism -- The Dissociation Of Sensibility -- Conclusion And Political Postscript. August K. Wiedmann. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 296-321.