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Seller's Description:
Very Good Condition. A very presentable copy with minimal wear. Only slight wear to cover. Internally, clean and fresh, with unmarked and uncreased pages. Size: 23 x 15.5 cm. 322 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Arts, German; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832; Science; Aesthetics; ISBN: 9042021241. ISBN/EAN: 9789042021242. Add. Inventory No: 230906TKW040062.
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VG+: A book in excellent condition. Looks as though it were seldom, if ever, taken from the shelf. A glossy orange hardcover book with a color image of 'Bay of Naples' by Cy Twombly. Pages: (5), 4-322, (10). All illustrations are in black-and-white. Essays cover a range of media from painting and the decorative arts to theater, sculpture, and the science of seeing. Contents: The enlightened eye: visual culture in the age of Goethe / Patricia Anne Simpson and Evelyn K. Moore Angelika Kaufmann, Goethe, and the Arcadian Academy in Rome / Melissa Dabakis Sweetmeats for the eye: porcelain miniatures in classical Weimar / Catriona MacLeod Goethe, Runge, Friedrich: on painting / Beate Allert The gendered eye of the beholder: the co-ed art history of the Jena romantics / Margaretmary Daley Elise in Weimar: "actress-writers" and the resistance to classicism / Mary Helen Dupree Visions of the nation: Goethe, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Ernst Moritz Arndt / Patricia Anne Simpson Goethe and Lavater: a specular friendship / Evelyn K. Moore Towards an aesthetics of the sublime Augenblick: reading Karl Philipp Moritz reading Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers / Elliott Schreiber Fugitive imgages and visual memory in Goethe's discourse on color / Clark S. Muenzer The technology eye: theater lighting and Guckkasten in Michaelis and Goethe / Eric Hadley Denton The subjective eye: Goethe's Farbenlehre and Faust / Astrida Orle Tantillo Poetically visualizing Urgestalten: the union of nature, art, and the love of a woman in Goethe's "Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen" / Heide Crawford Scribbles from Italy: Cy Twombly's experiment in seeing Goethe see language / Richard Block.
