The enlightened eye : Goethe and visual culture / edited by Evelyn K. Moore and Patricia Anne Simpson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, Evelyn K.

Simpson, Patricia Anne, 1958-

German Studies Association. Conference (2003 : New Orleans, La.)

Series:

Amsterdamer Beitrage zur neueren Germanistik ; 62.

Amsterdamer Beitrage zur neueren Germanistik ; 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts, German--18th century--Congresses.

Arts, German.

Arts, German--19th century--Congresses.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832--Aesthetics--Congresses.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832--Knowledge--Art--Congresses.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832--Knowledge--Science--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Poets, painters, philosophers, and scientists alike debated new ways of thinking about visual culture in the “long eighteenth century”. The essays in The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture demonstrate the extent to which Goethe advanced this discourse in virtually all disciplines. The concept of visuality becomes a constitutive moment in a productive relationship between the verbal and visual arts with far-reaching implications for the formation of bourgeois identity, pedagogy, and culture. From a variety of theoretical perspectives, the contributors to this volume examine the interconnections between aesthetic and scientific fields of inquiry involved in Goethe’s visual identity. By locating Goethe’s position in the examination of visual culture, both established and emerging scholars analyze the degree to which visual aesthetics determined the cultural production of both the German-speaking world and the broader European context. The contributions analyze the production, presentation, and consumption of visual culture defined broadly as painting, sculpture, theater, and scientific practice. The Enlightened Eye promises to invest new energy and insight into the discussion among literary scholars, art historians, and cultural theorists about many aspects of visual culture in the Age of Goethe.

Contents:

Preliminary material / Editors The Enlightened Eye

The Enlightened Eye: Visual Culture in the Age of Goethe / Patricia Anne Simpson and Evelyn K. Moore

Angelika Kauffmann, Goethe, and the Arcadian Academy in Rome / Melissa Dabakis

Sweetmeats for the Eye: Porcelain Miniatures in Classical Weimar / Catriona MacLeod

Goethe, Runge, Friedrich: On Painting / Beate Allert

The Gendered Eye of the Beholder: The Co-ed Art History of the Jena Romantics / Margaretmary Daley

Elise in Weimar: “Actress-Writers” and the Resistance to Classicism / Mary Helen Dupree

Visions of the Nation: Goethe, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Ernst Moritz Arndt / Patricia Anne Simpson

Goethe and Lavater: A Specular Friendship / Evelyn K. Moore

Towards an Aesthetics of the Sublime Augenblick: Reading Karl Philipp Moritz Reading Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werthers / Elliott Schreiber

Fugitive Images and Visual Memory in Goethe’s Discourse on Color / Clark S. Muenzer

The Technological Eye: Theater Lighting and Guckkasten in Michaelis and Goethe / Eric Hadley Denton

The Subjective Eye: Goethe’s Farbenlehre and Faust / Astrida Orle Tantillo

Poetically Visualizing Urgestalten. The Union of Nature, Art, and the Love of a Woman in Goethe’s “Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen” / Heide Crawford

Scribbles from Italy: Cy Twombly’s Experiment in Seeing Goethe See Language / Richard Block

Notes on the Contributors / Editors The Enlightened Eye

Index / Editors The Enlightened Eye.

Notes:

Based on a session organized for the German Studies Association Conference held in New Orleans in 2003.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0375-X

1-4294-8058-0

OCLC:

166131345

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401203753 DOI