romanticism

<aesthetics> name for the theory and movement of art and philosophy that developed in the nineteenth century in opposition to classicism. The term is not clearly defined and has different meanings in different disciplines. In art and aesthetics the term usually refers to the various attributes of Romantic art in contrast with classicism and naturalism, including a free-flowing style, expression of emotion, concern with values and personal experience, etc. In philosophy the term is often equivalent to emotionalism. (References from aestheticism, classicism, emotionalism, and naturalism.)

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