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Identity in Diversity: Programmatic Pictures of the Enlightenment
Author(s) -
Fulda Daniel
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal for eighteenth‐century studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1754-0208
pISSN - 1754-0194
DOI - 10.1111/1754-0208.12781
Subject(s) - enlightenment , realm , diversity (politics) , identity (music) , representation (politics) , aesthetics , period (music) , history , sociology , visual arts , literature , art , epistemology , political science , law , philosophy , anthropology , archaeology , politics
Inquiries into the realm of Enlightenment identities usually depart from the texts of this period. Yet pictures created by contemporary artists are equally crucial and largely overlooked sources that have the potential to condense such identities. Using examples from late eighteenth‐century France and early eighteenth‐century Germany, this paper shows how pictures were used to propagate agendas of enlightenment and, sometimes, to draft it in the first place. It discusses how different ideas of enlightenment connected to different strategies of visual representation and to schemes of public usage of the pictures.