Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism: Writing Images

Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology.

The work of the groundbreaking writers and artists of German Romanticism — including the writers Tieck, Brentano, and Eichendorff and the artists Caspar David Friedrich and Philipp Otto Runge — followed from the philosophical arguments of the German Idealists, who placed emphasis on exploring the subjective space of the imagination. The Roma...