Abstract

The phenomenon of movement and stillness in art from Romanticism to the present day
Until now, modern art has mainly been equated with acceleration, from William Turner to Futurism, abstraction, kinetics and media art. However, little attention has been paid to the fact that the fascination with speed has always been associated with the search for an aesthetic of slowness, which sought to explore the dynamics of stillness and the depth of being, from the images of longing of the Romantics to the profound "slow painting" of Mark Rothko or Franz Gertsch. For the first time, this volume explores this dialectic in modernism and condenses a topic that strikes a chord in society. Renowned authors such as the sociologist Hartmut Rosa and the cultural scientist Hartmut Böhme discuss the problems of technological and economic acceleration and the increasing need to slow down.