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Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism (Hardcover)
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Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
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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.
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