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

• Superior document: Amsterdamer Beitrage zur neueren Germanistik ; 62
• Author: German Studies Association. Conference
• TeilnehmendeR: Moore, Evelyn K.; Simpson, Patricia Anne, 1958-; German Studies Association. Conference
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdamer Beitrage zur neueren Germanistik ; 62.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (325 p.)
• Notes: Based on a session organized for the German Studies Association Conference held in New Orleans in 2003.

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.

Table of 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.