Elisabeth Ansel
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Art Historian at @uni-jena.de | Art & Politics, Irish & British Art, Transcultural Romanticism, Art & Blindness, Postcolonial & Gender Studies | Berlin, Jena (currently New York/New Haven)
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Happy to share that our Jena research group on Romanticism has published "Picturing the Romantic. New Perspectives on European Romanticism(s) in the Visual Arts", out now with
@manchesterup.bsky.social. Ed. by Ansel, Grave, Neubauer & Zadrozny.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179425/
Finally getting to read/see Alexander Cozens' 1786 "A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Original Compositions of Landscape", along with all the accompanying daring plates that demonstrate the imaginative technique of blotting, at the Beinecke Library.
What a pleasure to study William Blake's unique illustrations for Thomas Gray's poem "The Bard" at the YCBA. Blake inserted the printed text into a cutout in the centre of a larger sheet of watercolor paper, an absolutely novel way of approaching the relationship between text and image.
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What a joy to study all the material on epistemic images in the New Haven Medical Library. Many thanks to Laura Phillips, curator for the visual arts, for showing me the library and for the great conversation about scientists as artists.
What a joy to study all the material on epistemic images in the New Haven Medical Library. Many thanks to Laura Phillips, curator for the visual arts, for showing me the library and for the great conversation about scientists as artists.
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I was delighted to present my research on Staffa, Carus, and Turner at the History of Art Department at Yale University and to discuss it with colleagues. Thank you for the fruitful exchange.

#Romanticism #Modernism #Art&Science #Geology
I was delighted to present my research on Staffa, Carus, and Turner at the History of Art Department at Yale University and to discuss it with colleagues. Thank you for the fruitful exchange.

#Romanticism #Modernism #Art&Science #Geology
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What an intimate and truthful portrait by John Wilson of his brother, painted in 1942. On display at the great exhibition 'Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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Es ist offiziell: Die Romantikforschung an der @uni-jena.de wird in Form eines Zentrums institutionalisiert; im November wird es eröffnet. Unter anderem wird Kunsthistorikerin und Fellow Cordula Grewe einen Vortrag zu arabeskem Denken und Gestalten halten. Weitere Infos: romantik-zentrum.uni-jena.de
What an intimate and truthful portrait by John Wilson of his brother, painted in 1942. On display at the great exhibition 'Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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„Museums are places to hang out“: Mary Heilmann’s installation "Long Line" at the Whitney Museum, which faces the Hudson River and the surrounding cityscape, invites visitors to do exactly that.
„Museums are places to hang out“: Mary Heilmann’s installation "Long Line" at the Whitney Museum, which faces the Hudson River and the surrounding cityscape, invites visitors to do exactly that.
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An early curly shag by Thomas Gainsborough. Portrait of Elizabeth Martha Collick Hatchett painted c. 1786. On view at the recently reopened Frick Collection.
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Was hat ein Gemälde, das ein fröhliches Picknick zeigt mit sozialen Fragen am Übergang der Neuzeit zur Moderne zu tun? Elisabeth Fritz, stellvertretende Direktorin am DFK Paris, untersucht, wie man Bilder der Geselligkeit als Bilder von Gesellschaft verstehen kann.

🔗 www.maxweberstiftung...
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Famously, between the first and the second act of Waiting for Godot, the only difference in the stage set is that a previously bare tree ‘has four or five leaves’. So what’s the main note to self I found in this copy which seems to have belonged to a stage manager called Nigel...?