The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture (Amsterdamer Beitraege zur neueren Germanistik 62) (Amsterdamer Beitrage zur Neueren Germanistik)

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 Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Patricia Anne SIMPSON and Evelyn K. MOORE: The Enlightened Eye: Visual Culture in the Age of Goethe I.Visions/Revisions of the Neoclassical Aesthetic Melissa DABAKIS: Angelika Kauffmann, Goethe, and the Arcadian Academy in Rome Catriona MACLEOD: Sweetmeats for the Eye: Porcelain Miniatures in Classical Weimar Beate ALLERT: Goethe, Runge, Friedrich: On Painting Margaretmary DALEY: The Gendered Eye of the Beholder: The Co-ed Art History of the Jena Romantics Mary Helen DUPREE: Elise in Weimar: "Actress-Writers" and the Resistance to Classicism Patricia Anne SIMPSON: Visions of the Nation: Goethe, Karl Table of Contents......Page 6 Acknowledgements......Page 8 Abbreviations......Page 10 INTRODUCTION......Page 12 The Enlightened Eye: Visual Culture in the Age of Goethe......Page 14 I. VISIONS/REVISIONS OF THE NEOCLASSICAL AESTHETIC......Page 26 Angelika Kauffmann, Goethe, and the Arcadian Academy in Rome......Page 28 Sweetmeats for the Eye: Porcelain Miniatures in Classical Weimar......Page 44 Goethe, Runge, Friedrich: On Painting......Page 76 The Gendered Eye of the Beholder: The Co-ed Art History of the Jena Romantics......Page 96 Elise in Weimar: "Actress-Writers" and the Resistance to Classicism......Page 114 Visions of the Nation: Goethe, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Ernst Moritz Arndt......Page 130 II. THE VIOLENCE OF VISION: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND THE STAGE OF LANGUAGE......Page 166 Goethe and Lavater: A Specular Friendship......Page 168 Towards an Aesthetics of the Sublime Augenblick: Reading Karl Philipp Moritz Reading Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers......Page 196 Fugitive Images and Visual Memory in Goethe's Discourse on Color......Page 222 The Technological Eye: Theater Lighting and Guckkasten in Michaelis and Goethe......Page 242 The Subjective Eye: Goethe's Farbenlehre and Faust......Page 268 Poetically Visualizing Urgestalten. The Union of Nature, Art, and the Love of a Woman in Goethe's "Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen"......Page 282 Scribbles from Italy: Cy Twombly's Experiment in Seeing Goethe See Language......Page 292 III. APPENDIX......Page 314 Notes on the Contributors......Page 316 C......Page 320 G......Page 321 J......Page 322 P......Page 323 V......Page 324 Z......Page 325 "Essays cover a range of media from painting and the decorative arts to theater, sculpture, and the science of seeing." from Introduction.