18th Century
Age of Sensibility
Age of Enlightenment
English Landscape garden (19 janv. 1700 – 1 janv. 1800)
Description:
- pre-classical epistime: knowledge in similarities (brain / walnut)
- classical epistime: transparent representability of world --> classifying
- Age of Encyclopedias
- Linnaeus: "diference genus / species"
Enlightenment
- philosophical spirit = intellectal spirit
Idea of progress / knowledge / reason (by experience)
- Kant: Sapere Aude! Aufklärung = befreiung aus Unmündigkeit
- Aim: Improve / Advance learning, individual, liberty and social conditions
- France: criticises catholic church
But also radical atheism (machines)
Culture of Public debate
- Art loses aristoctaic sponsor and becomes market oriented (literacy, coffee houses & freedom of press)
- The Spectator: filled with bourgeois norms & emerging bürgerliche Öffentlichkeit
Sensibility:
- before: emotions unmanly and dangerous
- Fiction: "pamela" -> cries -> good person
- feminization of society but also marginalization of women
- feelings fulfil: communication, beautiful, knowledge and morals
- repress sex but love family
Women: legal death, gender constructs of married men earning more
English Landscape garden:
- political, economic, social, aesthetic, mentality
- french formal garden -> bad! absolutist!
- landscape garden -> free! natural!
No geometry, different moods, space for family recreation
Ajouté au bande de temps:
british culture
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