Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism
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2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-00126-7 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-00126-7 (ISBN)
This new, interdisciplinary history of romanticism, art and science, reveals how romantic artworks participated in a profound crisis concerning the relationship between knowledge and the human body at the end of European Enlightenment. A multi-national approach focuses on the artists Henry Fuseli, Anne-Louis Girodet and Philippe de Loutherbourg.
Can we really trust the things our bodies tell us about the world? This work reveals how deeply intertwined cultural practices of art and science questioned the authority of the human body in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Henry Fuseli, Anne-Louis Girodet and Philippe de Loutherbourg, it argues that romantic artworks participated in a widespread crisis concerning the body as a source of reliable scientific knowledge. Rarely discussed sources and new archival material illuminate how artists drew upon contemporary sciences and inverted them, undermining their founding empiricist principles. The result is an alternative history of romantic visual culture that is deeply embroiled in controversies around electricity, mesmerism, physiognomy and other popular sciences. This volume reorients conventional accounts of romanticism and some of its most important artworks, while also putting forward a new model for the kinds of questions that we can ask about them.
Can we really trust the things our bodies tell us about the world? This work reveals how deeply intertwined cultural practices of art and science questioned the authority of the human body in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Henry Fuseli, Anne-Louis Girodet and Philippe de Loutherbourg, it argues that romantic artworks participated in a widespread crisis concerning the body as a source of reliable scientific knowledge. Rarely discussed sources and new archival material illuminate how artists drew upon contemporary sciences and inverted them, undermining their founding empiricist principles. The result is an alternative history of romantic visual culture that is deeply embroiled in controversies around electricity, mesmerism, physiognomy and other popular sciences. This volume reorients conventional accounts of romanticism and some of its most important artworks, while also putting forward a new model for the kinds of questions that we can ask about them.
Stephanie O'Rourke is a lecturer in Art History at the University of St Andrews.
1. De Loutherbourg's mesmeric effects; 2. Fuseli's physiognomic impressions; 3. Girodet's electric shocks; 4. Self evidence on the scaffold.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.10.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Studies in Romanticism |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-009-00126-4 / 1009001264 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-009-00126-7 / 9781009001267 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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