For the 5th week of our Art History reading series, we will read a chapter called, "The Beginnings of Romanticism in the German-Speaking World." Germany in the 18th century did not exist as a political entity, but as decentralized principalities, nominally under the Holy Roman Empire. Toward the end of the 18th century, Romanticism emerged as an art movement that priveleged emotion and spirituality. While Immanuel Kant was an Enlightenment philosopher and Caspar David Friedrich was a German Romanticist - oppositional in philosophy - the latter's landscape paintings can be intrepreted to embody his contemporary's theory of the "sublime."
We will meet at the gallery 18:00–21:00 Thursday April 9th, for Doi Joi. This week's reading will be hosted by gallery assistant Matei Ibanescu.