Urban Romanticism is an artistic and literary movement whose popularization is widely attributed to the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. Hallmarks of Urban Romanticism include use of or reference to digital media, popular culture, and the Dutch concept of vanitas. The movement seeks to draw the attention of the viewer to the paradox of the Urban Romantic. Viewers and readers are challenged to seek urban romanticism in a real-world context and redefine romanticism for a divided and digitized era.
Artworks considered Urban Romantic vary widely but often allude to contemporary commercial art, Japanese woodblock printmaking and the late Impressionist movement. Writing classified as Urban Romantic emphasizes understated elegance in its prose and seeks to explore the controversies and hot-button issues of the early twenty-first century in multifarious contexts.
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