“The Dark Side of Reason”
MWF 11:00-11:50 l Girvetz 1004 l
office hours: M 11-12, W 2-3l office:
South Hall 2503 l 893-3349
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TAs: Billy Hall
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Paxton Hehmeyer l
Alex McKee l
Laura Miller
The Dark Side of Reason
in Later 18 th-C. British Painting:
The Irrational, Supernatural, Excessive, and Sublime
George Stubbs (1724-1806)
“Eclipse at Newmarket” (1770?); Zebra (1763); equine anatomy studies (1766); “Hambletonian, Rubbing Down” (1800); “White Horse Attacked by A Lion” (1770); “Horse Attacked by a Lion” (1769); human anatomy studies (1795)
Joseph Wright, called "Wright of Derby" (1734-97)
"Landscape with Ruins by Moonlight" (1780-82); "Virgil's Tomb by Moonlight" (1779); "Vesuvius in Eruption" (1777-80); “Iron Forge from Without” (1773); "Arkwright's Mill at Night" (1782-83); "The Old Man and Death" (1774)
Henry Fuseli (or Füssli, 1741-1825):
"The Nightmare" (1781); “Sin Pursued by Death,” Paradise Lost (1794-96)
William Blake (1757-1827)
Illus. for Gray’s “Ode on … Eton College” (1797-98); for Edward Young's Night Thoughts; “Eve’s Temptation and Fall,” Paradise Lost IX (1808); “The Ghost of a Flea” (1819-20)
John ("Mad") Martin (1789-1854):
illus. for Gray’s "The Bard" (1817); "The Deluge" (1873); "The Great Day of His Wrath" (1853)