CONTINENTAL CROSSCURRENTS: BRITISH CRITICISM AND EUROPEAN ART, 1810-1910

"Continental Crosscurrents is a series of case studies reflecting British attitudes to continental art during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It stresses the way in which the British went to the continent in search of origins and of sources of purity and originality. This cult of the primitive took many forms, it involved a reassessment of medieval German and Italian art and offered new ways of interpreting Venetian painting; it opened up new readings of architectural history and the 'discovery' of the Romanesque; it generated a debate about the value of returning to religious subjects in art; and it raised the question of the relationship between modern art and Byzantine art in the early twentieth century."--Jacket.