Page Title Explore Past Exhibits Filter and Sort Exhibits Title Curator Brandon Cook October 2023 Medieval Ruins and Nationhood in Romantic-era Travel and Popular Culture Lisa Hollenbach July 2023 Merlin's Cave: Romantic Automata August 2023 During the Romantic period, India was one of Britain’s most prized colonies. Rethinking Company Paintings Matthew Francis Rarey June 2023 This gallery explores the work of artists and explorers in Mexico and Central America between 1804 and 1844. Romantic explorers visually constructed Mexican history, archaeology, and geography in relation to Romantic conceptions of the picturesque landscape. Romantic Visualities and the Construction of Mexico, 1804-1844 Elizabeth Rose Mathie September 2023 Seascapes and National Pride in Romantic Visual Culture July 2009 This image gallery explores the unstable place of the camera obscura in Romantic visual culture and offers a critical revision of Jonathan Crary’s central thesis in Techniques of the Observer (1990). In this text, Crary contends that the camera obscura is a model of rational, disembodied vision that is later subsumed by a modern, subjective mode of observation. Seeing beyond the Dark Room: Representations of the Camera Obscura August 2009 The artwork of Sir George Back, Royal Navy explorer of the Canadian Arctic, invites our reexamination of the paradigms of Romantic visual culture via its depiction of the “otherness” that the Arctic represented to the British during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the difficulty of physically navigating that landscape. The Aesthetics of Difficulty: George Back's Pragmatic Arctic Landscapes June 2009 In the eighteenth century, ruins all over the world were being rediscovered and reinterpreted aesthetically as their popularity and their importance as artistic subjects increased. An increase in travel and travel literature exposed British society to ruins both local and foreign, spurring interest in capturing their picturesque nature. The Romance of Ruins Madeline Crane September 2023 The World Beyond: Romantic Art and the Supernatural Lucy Kimiko Hawkinson Traverse July 2009 Epitomized by Caspar David Friedrich’s Wanderer Watching a Sea of Fog (c. 1817-18), and the Wordsworthian peripatetic, the gentlemanly or artistic wanderer is integral to the Romantic imagination. Wandering lies at the heart of picturesque sightseeing, blank verse poetry, specimen collecting, and the Romantic cultivation of self. Unsanctioned Wanderings August 2009 Though the Victorian period is often considered the Golden Age of childhood, the children’s book market was an active political and moral battleground as early as the 1770s. Visualizing Grammar for Children Noah Heringman, Matt Hendrickson September 2023 Volcanoes, Science, and Spectacle in the Romantic Period Pagination First page « First Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Current page 2 Page 3 Next page Next › Last page Last »
