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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Makela, Maria
• Morton, Marsha
• Maynes, Erin
• McCloskey, Barbara
• Hartzell, Freyja
• Smith, Camilla
• Lübbren, Nina
• Zervigón, Andrés Mario
• Magilow, Daniel H.
• Weikop, Christian
• Barnstone, Deborah Ascher

Titel

Forum: Visual Studies—The Art Historians' View

Ist Teil von

• The German quarterly, 2019-04, Vol.92 (2), p.246-282

Ort / Verlag

Cherry Hill: American Association of Teachers of German

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Wiley Online Library Journals Frontfile Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The pioneering book on Romantic constructions of nature remains Timothy J. Mitchell's Art and Science in German Landscape Painting 1770-1840 (1993), which was followed by the exhibition Expedition Kunst (2003), extending the scope to portrayals of foreign vistas. According to Mitchell, these interests produced shared goals uniting stylistically diverse painters for whom elements of nature (mountains, trees, sky and clouds) instantiated the passage of time and "were believed to have exerted a direct influence on cultural history" (2). Information about Carus, which serves to underscore his influence, has expanded considerably through a two-volume exhibition catalogue (2009), authored by scientists and art historians addressing thematic topics, evaluations of his writings and natural history collection, and relationships with leading figures such as Goethe, Alexander von Humboldt, Lorenz Oken, and Friedrich. The body of nature is seen to reveal the body of man: trees and shrubs are the visible manifestation of the human vascular, arterial, and nervous systems, sap is blood, suns are eyes, rocks are petrified hands, the physiognomy of the cranium is comparable to the earth's surface, and death reunites the decomposing self with the universe through gas emissions.