First, we will investigate Pragmatism in its genetic although not univocal relationship to Romanticism, and then the implications of this relationship for a possibility of applying the idea of inspiration to creativity construed in the Pragmatist way. This rebellion began with the 19th Century Romantic contestation of the Enlightenment and industrial revolution and was carried forward first by the Victorian aestheticians and morris’s Arts and Crafts Movement in interior design, and then by some of the 20th Century avant‐gardes, and the 1968 social movements. Several contemporary artistic manifestos have mutatis mutandis repeated or re‐enacted (rather than continued) the post‐Romantic rebellion against “the rational oppression” represented by technology and the technisization of human environment. As critics of contemporary art and culture, among them Maarten Doorman and Thomas Streeter, observe, the second half of the 20th Century can be understood in terms of its multifaceted bond with Romanticism.
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