This writing looks into Romantic irony,
an early avant-garde idea from Friedrich Schlegel and the Jena romantics, and relates it to contem-porary artworks. The study revolves around the inconsistency and contradiction that Romantic irony creates between cognition and practice.
The study is a Research Master thesis for the University of Amstedam, the programme of Artistic Research. Miklos Gaál is an artist based in Amsterdam.
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D
ay
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otifs
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omantic
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vant
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Miklos Gaál