French Art and Culture from the 1780s to the 1900s

Dear Colleagues,

The aftermath of the Enlightenment and the 1789 Revolution saw an impressive revival of intellectual, scientific, and artistic activity in France that spanned the entire nineteenth century. Philosophy in particular was one of the fields that attracted the interest of both the elites and the educated middle classes. Philosophy's main appeal was its broad interdisciplinary range, especially its partnership with a simultaneous development of sciences.

This Special Issue of Arts invites articles that explore the relation between the arts and the period's hybrid cultural context of philosophy interwoven with science. Its impact has opened new avenues for artistic creativity, as breakthroughs in the natural and medical sciences from anatomical scrutiny to evolutionism have transformed artists' perception of man and nature. New materialist creeds, both monist and pantheistic, have reevaluated the sensorial in unity with the spiritual, which has led to an artistic overhaul of themes, aesthetics, and factures. Linked geological, paleontological, and anthropological theories prompted a temporal and spatial revision of the history of humankind, of the earth, and of the universe, spurring new imaginary realms of visual production. Delving into the roots of existence, the fascination with primeval microscopic organisms in the ocean's depths as analogous to the dark recesses of the human unconscious has compelled artists to fuse the biological, the psychological, and the aesthetic.

Prof. Dr. Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer
Guest Editor

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