Format:
xi, 253 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
ISBN:
9781316519028
,
9781009001267
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in Romanticism 133
Content:
"Can we really trust the things our bodies tell us about the world? This book 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"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 221-247
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009004510
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009020121
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe O'Rourke, Stephanie, - 1986- Art, science, and the body in early Romanticism Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ISBN 9781009004510
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781316519028
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009001267
Language:
English
Subjects:
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Romantik
;
Künste
;
Körper
;
Körper
;
Wissenschaft
;
Mesmerismus
;
Physiognomik
;
Elektrizität
;
Kunst
;
Geschichte 1790-1830
;
Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de 1740-1812
;
Füssli, Johann Heinrich 1741-1825
;
Girodet-Trioson, Anne Louis 1767-1824
