Paperback. Black title on the cream and tan cover.

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Fairy tales, dream and magical worlds, horror, madness and the absurd…

Fantastic art and literature are not a modern invention: they have existed ever since humans began creating art. In his original and breathtaking foray into the history of European art and literature, Gustav René Hocke uses his impressive knowledge to uncover the cultural-historical thread of fantasy or Mannerism, which runs like a thread through all eras of European art history from antiquity to the present day, blossoming into a dominant art form in our time.