Dare to know : prints and drawings in the age of Enlightenment / edited by Edouard Kopp, Elizabeth M. Rudy, and Kristel Smentek.

"Are volcanoes punishment from God? What do a fly and a mulberry have in common? What utopias await in unexplored corners of the earth and beyond? During the Enlightenment, questions like these were brought to life through an astonishing array of prints and drawings, helping shape public opinion and...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Harvard Art Museums (Host institution, Publisher)
Other Authors: Kopp, Édouard, 1974- (Editor)
Rudy, Elizabeth M. (Editor)
Smentek, Kristel (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Harvard Art Museums, [2022]
Subjects:
Drawing > 18th century.
Prints > 18th century.
Enlightenment.
Dessin > 18e siècle.
Estampe > 18e siècle.
Siècle des lumières.
ART / European.
Drawing.
Prints.
Arts graphiques > 18e siècle.
Gravure > 18e siècle.
Mouvement des Lumières.
1700-1799
Catalogues d'exposition.
Genre:
Catalogues d'exposition.
Physical Description:xvii, 315 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Edouard Kopp, Elizabeth M. Rudy, and Kristel Smentek. Second sample, first trial with pine cones / Gabriella Szalay
  • Antiquities/ Kristel Smentek. Young monk in a Grecian / Austeja Mackelaite
  • Believe / Kristel Smentek
  • Cruelty / Paul Friedland. Self-portrait / Alvin L. Clark, Jr.
  • Drawing / Edouard Kopp
  • Expedition / Edouard Kopp
  • Flight / Elizabeth Saari Browne
  • Geography / J. Cabelle Ahn. Plan, profile, and layout of the ship La Marie-Seraphique from Nantes, France / Rachel Burke and Kela Jackson
  • Human / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth ; Imagination / Edouard Kopp
  • Jest / Elizabeth M. Rudy. A view of the giant's causeway: east prospect / Ashley Hannebrink
  • Knowledge / Kristel Smentek
  • Lava / Elizabeth M. Rudy
  • Microscope / Brandon O. Scott. Plate 10, from natural history of chinese goldfish / Penley Knipe
  • Nature / Edouard Kopp
  • Oculus / Elizabeth M. Rudy
  • Public / Joachim Homann. Agamemmon pursuing a trojan near the Tomb of Ilos / Anne Driesse
  • Quack / Elizabeth Kathleen Mitchell
  • Reproduction / Elizabeth M. Rudy
  • Skin / Kristel Smentek. Cenotaph to Newton / Phoebe Springstubb
  • Time / Elizabeth M. Rudy and Tamar Mayer
  • Utopia / Tamar Mayer. Lunar planisphere, hypothetical oblique light / Heather N. Linton
  • Venus / Kristel Smentek
  • Wager / Thea Goldring. Muscles of the back / Christina Taylor
  • XXX / Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
  • Yellow / Margaret Morgan Grasselli
  • Zealotry / Joachim Homann
  • Baptism / Kristel Smentek.