Visual Studies

This document provides summaries of the lectures of Visual Studies 178 regarding Romanticism. It includes characteristics of Romanticism, Romantic Artists, Romantic Landscapes, Nostalgia, and the Sublime. In addition, the readings of Blayney Brown, Vaughan (1978), Edward Said, and JM Mackenzie are summarized. Important quotes with references are included.

This Essay discusses the art of Caspar David Friedrich, which evokes mystery, a sense of the transcendent or what Edmund Burke termed ‘the sublime.’ Reference is made to three works, Morning Mist in the Mountains (1808), On the Sailing Boat (1819), and A Walk at Dusk (1835). Consideration is given to Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (1990), Vaughan’s Romantic Art, (1978), as well as Blayney’s Romanticism, (2001).