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

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 concep...

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Superior document:Amsterdamer Beitrage zur neueren Germanistik ; 62
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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.
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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.