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==Application to literature== In contrast to the limiting of 'plastic arts' to sculpture and architecture by [[Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling]] in 1807,<ref>{{cite book |title=Russian Romantic Criticism: An Anthology |editor-first= Lauren Gray |editor-last=Leighton |publisher= Greenwood Publishing Group |date=1987 |ISBN=978-0313255847}}</ref> the German critic [[August Wilhelm Schlegel]] (1767–1845) applied the concept not only to visual arts, but also [[poetry]]. Classical poetry lines he saw using plastic isolation, and rhyme falling under the Romantic (domain).<ref>{{cite book |title=The literary theories of August Wilhelm Schlegel |first=Ralph W. |last=Ewton Jnr |publisher=Walter de Gruyter and Co |date=1972 |ISBN=978-3110991635}}</ref> In Schlegel's Viennese lectures (1809–1811), published in 1827 as ''On the Theory and History of the Plastic Arts'', he contrasted the plasticism of Classical Art with picturesque [[Romanticism]]: {{quotation|[He] operated with the [[wikt:antinomy|antinomy]] of terms plastic/pictorial, mechanically/ organically, finite/ infinite, and closed/accomplished. Schlegel stated that the spirit of the entire antique culture and poetry was plastic and that the spirit of modern culture, however, was picturesque (pittoresk)<ref>{{cite book |chapter=Civic Art Then and Now: The Culture of Good Place-making |first= Charles C.|last= Bohl |title=Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis: Modern Civic Art and International Exchanges |editor-first1= Charles |editor-last1= Bohl |editor-first2=Jean-François |editor-last2= Lejeune |publisher= Routledge |date=2009 |ISBN=978-0415424073}}</ref>}}
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