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A Few Doubts About Neo-Romanticism

Are you sure you want to become a Romantic?

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Matthew Gasda
Mar 22, 2025
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Already before the Casper David Friedrich exhibition at the Met, many people have been predicting a revival of Romanticism in our time. The novelist Ross Barkan and culture critic Ted Gioia have both written memorably about it. Recently, we published an edition of CrowdSource with roundup of pro- and anti-Romanticism takes. Today, Matthew Gasda questions all this Romanticism-talk, aski…

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