Dare to Know

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Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment

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Dare to Know by James Kennedy is a thought-provoking exploration of a world where the exact time of death can be predicted with scientific precision. The protagonist grapples with the psychological and moral implications of this knowledge amidst societal and personal turmoil. As the boundary between rationality and belief blurs, themes of existential dread and the search for meaning take centre stage in the narrative.
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An A to Z exploration of the Enlightenment’s quest for understanding and change, as revealed in the era’s prints and drawings

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An A to Z exploration of the Enlightenment’s quest for understanding and change, as revealed in the era’s prints and drawings

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 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.

Echoing the structure and sweep of Diderot’s Encyclopédie, the book contains 26 thematic essays, organized A to Z, providing an unprecedented perspective on more than 50 artists, including Henry Fuseli, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Francisco Goya, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, William Hogarth, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and Giambattista Tiepolo. With a multidisciplinary approach, the book probes developments in the natural sciences, technology, economics, and more—all through the lens of the graphic arts.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300266726

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 October 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard University Art Museums,U.S.

Illustration: 168 color illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Kristel Smentek
Edited by Edouard Kopp
Edited by Elizabeth M Rudy

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 191.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 335

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Arts & Culture Global History History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

Edouard Kopp is the John R. Eckel, Jr. Foundation Chief Curator at the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston. Elizabeth M. Rudy is the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints at the Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA. Kristel Smentek is associate professor of art history in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.