Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment
Sep 16, 2022 · The exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment is on view at the Harvard Art Museums from September 16, 2022 through January 15, 2023. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment
“Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment” at the Harvard Art Museums brought together 150 prints, drawings, and books in order to examine how images contributed to the production and dissemination of Enlightenment knowledge between roughly 1720 and 1800.
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment
Jan 3, 2023 · During the Enlightenment, questions like these were brought to life through an astonishing array of prints and drawings, helping shape public opinion and stir political change. Dare to Know overturns common assumptions about the age, using the era’s proliferation of works on paper to tell a more nuanced story.
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment
See how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the Enlightenment era, encouraging individuals to follow their own reason when seeking to know more. What role did drawings and prints play during the Enlightenment era, from roughly 1720 to …
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment
What role did drawings and prints play during the Enlightenment era, from roughly 1720 to 1800? Dare to Know explores many nuances of this complex time—when political and cultural revolutions swept across Europe and the Americas, spurring profound shifts in science, philosophy, the arts, social and cultural encounters, and our shared sense of ...
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Oct 13, 2022 · Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment explores many nuances of this complex time — when political and cultural revolutions swept across Europe and the Americas, spurring...
Designed in conjunction with the exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment on view at the Harvard Art Museums this fall, this hands-on seminar investigates the Enlightenment from the perspective of the visual media that …
Dare to Know
Jan 3, 2023 · During the Enlightenment, questions like these were brought to life through an astonishing array of prints and drawings, helping shape public opinion and stir political change. overturns common assumptions about the age, using the era’s proliferation of works on paper to tell a more nuanced story.
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment …
Aug 23, 2023 · Visitors are confronted with a pair of slave ship representations that powerfully illustrate Enlightenment cruelties and paradoxes. Both drawings feature large vessels in plan and section, where Black bodies appear stacked in dehumanizing conditions.
Age of Enlightenment – Art History II
The Enlightenment was a movement that lasted about one hundred years, neatly corresponding to most of the eighteenth century; convenient dates for it are from the Glorious Revolution in Britain to the beginning of the French Revolution: 1688 – 1789.