The enlightened eye : Goethe and visual culture

325 Pages·2007·2.73 MB·English

by  Simpson

The Enlightened Eye
Goethe and Visual Culture
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Herausgegeben von
Gerd Labroisse
Gerhard P. Knapp
Norbert Otto Eke
Wissenschaftlicher Beirat:
Christopher Balme (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Lutz Danneberg (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Martha B. Helfer (Rutgers University New Brunswick)
Lothar Köhn (Westf. Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
Ian Wallace (University of Bath)
The Enlightened Eye
Goethe and Visual Culture
Edited by
Evelyn K. Moore and
Patricia Anne Simpson
Amsterdam - New York, NY 2007
Die 1972 gegründete Reihe erscheint seit 1977 in zwangloser Folge in der
Form von Thema-Bänden mit jeweils verantwortlichem Herausgeber.
Reihen-Herausgeber:
Prof. Dr. Gerd Labroisse
Sylter Str. 13A, 14199 Berlin, Deutschland
Tel./Fax: [phone] E-Mail: [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Gerhard P. Knapp
University of Utah
Dept. of Languages and Literature, 255 S. Central Campus Dr. Rm. 1400
Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
Tel.: [phone], Fax [phone] (dienstl.)
bzw. Tel./Fax: [phone] (privat) E-Mail: [email protected]
Prof. Dr. Norbert Otto Eke
Universität Paderborn
Fakultät für Kulturwissenschaften, Warburger Str. 100, D - 33098 Paderborn,
Deutschland, E-Mail: [email protected]
Cover image:
Cy Twombly (b. 1928) American
Bay of Naples
1961 [Rome]
Oil paint, oil based house paint, wax crayon, lead pencil on canvas.
95-1/4 x 117-5/8 inches. 241.8 x 298.6 cm.
Cy Twombly Gallery. The Menil Collection, Houston.
Photographer: Hickey-Robertson, Houston
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 5
Abbreviations 7
INTRODUCTION
Patricia Anne Simpson and Evelyn K.Moore:The Enlightened Eye:
Visual Culture in the Age of Goethe 11
I. VISIONS/REVISIONS OF THE NEOCLASSICAL AESTHETIC
Melissa Dabakis: Angelika Kauffmann, Goethe, and the Arcadian
Academy in Rome 25
Catriona MacLeod: Sweetmeats for the Eye: Porcelain Miniatures
in Classical Weimar 41
Beate Allert: Goethe, Runge, Friedrich: On Painting 73
Margaretmary Daley: The Gendered Eye of the Beholder: The
Co-edArt History of the Jena Romantics 93
Mary Helen Dupree: Elise in Weimar: “Actress-Writers” and the
Resistance to Classicism 111
Patricia Anne Simpson: Visions of the Nation: Goethe, Karl
Friedrich Schinkel, and Ernst Moritz Arndt 127
II. THE VIOLENCE OF VISION: SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND
THE STAGE OF LANGUAGE
Evelyn K.Moore: Goethe and Lavater: A Specular Friendship 165
Elliott Schreiber: Towards an Aesthetics of the Sublime
Augenblick: Reading Karl Philipp Moritz Reading Goethe’s Die
Leiden des jungen Werthers 193
Clark S.Muenzer: Fugitive Images and Visual Memory in Goethe’s
Discourse on Color 219
Eric Hadley Denton: The Technological Eye: Theater Lighting and
Guckkastenin Michaelis and Goethe 239
Astrida Orle Tantillo: The Subjective Eye: Goethe’s Farbenlehre
and Faust 265
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Heide Crawford: Poetically Visualizing Urgestalten. The Union of
Nature, Art, and the Love of a Woman in Goethe’s “Die
Metamorphose der Pflanzen” 279
Richard Block: Scribbles from Italy: Cy Twombly’s Experiment in
Seeing Goethe See Language 289
III. APPENDIX
Notes on the Contributors 313
Index 317
Acknowledgements
The editors wish to express their gratitude for the support that made this proj-
ect possible. The book grew from a session we organized for the German
Studies Association Conference in New Orleans (2003), and we would like to
thank the panel’s participants, audience, and commentator (John Lyon,
University of Pittsburgh) for generating such a productive discussion. In addi-
tion we owe special thanks to Eric Denton for his role in encouraging this proj-
ect. Significant progress on the manuscript was made during Evelyn Moore’s
sabbatical (2003–04), granted by Kenyon College, which coincided with a
period of course release for Patricia Simpson (Spring 2004), generously sup-
ported by a Scholarship and Creativity grant from Montana State University,
Bozeman. We also wish to thank our respective institutions for their continued
support. Financial assistance from both Kenyon College and the Department
of Modern Languages and Literatures at MSU helped defray the cost of repro-
ducing some of the images, and this support is gratefully acknowledged.
Further, we thank Joanna Cook (The Menil Collection, Houston) for help in
obtaining the rights to reproduce the Cy Twombly painting on the cover. Theo
Lipfert (Media and Theatre Arts, MSU) rendered invaluable assistance with
formatting other images in the book, and we thank him. We also want to
express our appreciation to John Vaio for his careful reading of various stages
of the project. Finally we would like to express our gratitude to Marieke
Schilling and the series editors at Rodopi for their careful attention to this book
during each stage of production.
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Abbreviations
The following standard editions of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s collected
works are referenced in the chapters of this book and abbreviated as follows:
FA: Sa¨mtliche Werke. Ed. by Hendrik Birus, et al. 40 vols. Frankfurt/M:
Suhrkamp – Deutscher Klassiker Verlag 1985ff. References to this edition in
the volume are generally followed by set/volume and page numbers.
WA: Werke. Weimarer Ausgabe. Ed. at the behest of the grand duchess Sophie
von Sachsen, 50 vols. Weimar: H. Böhlau 1887–1919. References to this edi-
tion are generally followed by the set in Roman numerals, volume, part, and
page numbers.
MA: Sa¨mtliche Werke nach Epochen seines Schaffens. Ed. by Karl Richter,
et al. 21 vols. Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag 1985ff. References are followed by
set, volume, and page number.
HA: Goethes Werke in XIV Ba¨nden. Ed. by Erich Trunz. Hamburg: Christian
Wegner 1950. References to this edition are followed by volume and page
numbers.
Several authors consulted the Suhrkamp edition of Goethe’s work in English
translation: Goethe’s Collected Works. 12 vols. New York: Suhrkamp 1983–1989.
References to these volumes are documented in individual chapters.