Goethe's Views on the Relationship of Art to Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Goethe's Views on the Relationship of Art to Nature write by Marshall Newton. This book was released on 1948. Goethe's Views on the Relationship of Art to Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Moral Authority of Nature
The Moral Authority of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Moral Authority of Nature write by Lorraine Daston. This book was released on 2010-08-15. The Moral Authority of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify. The Moral Authority of Nature offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse array of topics, including the connection of cosmic and human orders in ancient Greece, medieval notions of sexual disorder, early modern contexts for categorizing individuals and judging acts as "against nature," race and the origin of humans, ecological economics, and radical feminism. The essays also range widely in time and place, from archaic Greece to early twentieth-century China, medieval Europe to contemporary America. Scholars from a wide variety of fields will welcome The Moral Authority of Nature, which provides the first sustained historical survey of its topic. Contributors: Danielle Allen, Joan Cadden, Lorraine Daston, Fa-ti Fan, Eckhardt Fuchs, Valentin Groebner, Abigail J. Lustig, Gregg Mitman, Michelle Murphy, Katharine Park, Matt Price, Robert N. Proctor, Helmut Puff, Robert J. Richards, Londa Schiebinger, Laura Slatkin, Julia Adeney Thomas, Fernando Vidal
Goethe and Palladio
Goethe and Palladio - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Goethe and Palladio write by David Lowe. This book was released on 2005-11. Goethe and Palladio available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had to wait many years before he was able to travel south to Italy, "the land where the lemon trees bloom." He had gained success in several fields, but he had a sense of being trapped and confined and felt a need for light. Italy would give this to him in a number of ways. Taking as their basis Goethe's Italian Journey, the authors of this fascinating and unusual study explore how Goethe's experience of Palladio's architecture influenced his view of the relationship between art and nature in general and, in particular, helped him form his understanding of metamorphosis, leading to his discovery of the "archetypal plant." In his carefully written account of his travels, Goethe seems to oscillate between experiences of architecture and experiences of nature. In nature, he searched for the "archetypal plant," the essential form whose metamorphosis through time would produce the plant we see in its cycle from seed to fruit. In the art and architecture of antiquity and in Palladio's classical reformulation of it, he tried to understand the purpose and function of artistic creation. Until now, no one has put these two together. David Lowe and Simon Sharp show for the first time how these seemingly unrelated subjects are related--how the living geometries and volumes of harmoniously proportioned buildings, the "great idea" of architecture, can lead to the intuition of similar principles in nature. David Lowe and Simon Sharp have worked together for twenty-one years. One of their first projects was the recreation of Goethe's Italian Journey. They have given numerous workshops and presentations on the subject in the U.S. and U.K., including The British Museum, the German Embassy, and the Edinburgh Festival. This is must-reading for anyone interested in Goethe's ideas on plants and metamorphosis.
Art, Nature, and Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe
Art, Nature, and Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Art, Nature, and Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe write by Gerad Gentry. This book was released on 2024-10-21. Art, Nature, and Self-Formation in the Age of Goethe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume looks to core ideas defining Goethe’s work and his influence on his contemporaries and inheritors. Contributions to this volume explore his impact through ideas of organic and aesthetic formation; methods of biology, reason, becoming, and Bildung; modes of self-conscious comportment to nature, art, and the self; and conceptions of finitude and divinity. This volume underscores the interdisciplinary impact of Goethe’s thought and work. Of particular note is Goethe's unified and non-reductive account of nature, human education, social life, and reason. These contributions shed light on how Goethe's thought furthers the methodological sciences of his day while yielding resources for the grounding of theories of art in principles of idealism as well as imminent critiques of idealism through insights about organic formation and activity. The result is a compelling sense of unity through plurality. Contributors: James Conant, Richard Eldridge, Camilla Flodin, Michael Forster, Gerad Gentry, Keren Gorodeisky, Johannes Haag, Joel Lande, Lara Ostaric, Mattias Pirholt, Anne Pollok, Karin Schutjer, Allen Speight, Joan Steigerwald, Violetta Waibel, David Wellbery.
The Younger Goethe and the Visual Arts
The Younger Goethe and the Visual Arts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Younger Goethe and the Visual Arts write by William Douglas Robson-Scott. This book was released on 1981-02-26. The Younger Goethe and the Visual Arts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 1981 book tells of the part which the visual arts played in Goethe's life and thought.
