Subconscious States

German Romantic Painting By William Vaughan Yale, 259 pp., $45

This book fills a real need, for to all intents and purposes it is the first treatment in English of the German art of the early half of the nineteenth century to appear since the turn of this century. Unlike most such gap-fillers, it is not just a compilation of facts and dates but a gracefully written, insightful treatment of a topic about which the author, a reader in art history at University College, London, is both enthusiastic and knowledgeable; more, he is able to communicate the excitement he feels to those neophyte readers—and they will doubtless constitute a majority—who approach the subject as virgin territory.

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German Romantic Painting By William Vaughan Yale, 259 pp., $45

This book fills a real need, for to all intents and purposes it is the first treatment in English of the German art of the early half of the nineteenth century to appear since the turn of this century. Unlike most such gap-fillers, it is not just a compilation of facts and dates but a gracefully written, insightful treatment of a topic about which the author, a reader in art history at University College, London, is both enthusiastic and knowledgeable; more, he is able to communicate the excitement he feels to those neophyte readers—and they will doubtless constitute a majority—who approach the subject as virgin territory.