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Cambridge Studies in Romanticism Ser.: Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism by Stephanie O'Rourke (2023, Trade Paperback)
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Rarely discussed sources and new archival material illuminate how artists drew upon contemporary sciences and inverted them, undermining their founding empiricist principles.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101009001264
ISBN-139781009001267
eBay Product ID (ePID)15061949136
Product Key Features
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameArt, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism
SubjectGeneral, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year2023
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Art
AuthorStephanie O'rourke
SeriesCambridge Studies in Romanticism Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2021-038875
Dewey Edition23
Reviews'O'Rourke forces us not only to think anew about familiar paintings, but to reflect on how we establish relationships between art and science in other cases ... an approach that has the potential to reconceptualize not just the work of individual artists, but the entire Romantic era' Oliver Wunsch, Boston College, CAA Reviews, '[The book] is beautifully, sumptuously illustrated with fifty full-color images ... This treasure trove of images accentuates the virtuosic close reading of paintings that O'Rourke offers in each chapter.' Jacob Risinger, European Romantic Review, 'Stephanie O'Rourke's Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism is an exemplary book ... Amply illustrated with numerous color images and framed by a substantial concluding chapter, the book presents a capstone vision of how histories of art and science can be told together.' Matthew Hunter, Nineteenth-Century Art World Wide, 'As her wide reading and close looking show, these artists' attempts to make the body legible hit at every juncture upon instability of the self, invisibility of the causes of action, and other sources of error and indeterminacy in scientific method and Enlightenment efforts to apply it to modern life. The results have not always been appreciated as art. To reveal them as vibrant applications of-and challenges to-the most iconoclastic science of their time is the task O'Rourke sets herself.' Andrei Pop, Review 19
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal700.105
Table Of Content1. De Loutherbourg's mesmeric effects; 2. Fuseli's physiognomic impressions; 3. Girodet's electric shocks; 4. Self evidence on the scaffold.
SynopsisThis 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.
LC Classification NumberN72.S3O77 2021
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