The Enlightened Eye

Poets, painters, philosophers, and scientists alike debated new ways of thinking about visual culture in the long eighteenth century. The essays in The Enlightened Eye: Goethe and Visual Culture demonstrate the extent to which Goethe advanced this discourse in virtually all disciplines. The concept of visuality becomes a constitutive moment in a productive relationship between the verbal and visual arts with far-reaching implications for the formation of bourgeois identity, pedagogy, and culture