After 1990? That's pretty limiting!!
https://www.google.com/search?q=artists+after+1990&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS705US707&oq=artists+after+1990&aqs=chrome..69i57.5896j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Choose one and start searching his/her works.
So I'm looking for a work of art (painting, movie, literature, poem, etc.) from 1990 to modern day that has one of these traits:
- Feelings or intuition over reason
- Champions individual freedom and worth of the individual
- Civilization as artificial
- Urban areas are a detriment
- Negative industrial advances
- Seek beauty of nature
- Nature as a path to spiritual development
- Preoccupation with madness or dark sides of the human psyche
Basically American Romanticism and transcendentalism. Any ideas?
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I can't think of any "back to nature" tomes I've read in the last few years. I'm sure there are some. Novels that do deal with the darker sides of human nature and the artificiality of modern society are many. Anything by Louise Erdrich might qualify. Richard Ford' LET ME BE FRANK WITH YOU (2014) fits; Jim Harrison's THE RIVER SWIMMER (2013); Jonathan Franzen's THE CORRECTIONS (2001); Viet Thanh Nguyen's THE SYMPATHIZER (2015) all might suffice (and all are very, very good). I can think of a couple of plays: CLYBOURNE PARK by Bruce Norris (2011) and AUGUST, OSAGE COUNTY by Tracy Letts (2008). Short stories: anything by Lorrie Moore (BARK, 2014). George Saunders' short stories, too. I don't know that this helps, but those are a few suggestions.