Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Patricia Anne SIMPSON and Evelyn K. MOORE: The Enlightened Eye: Visual Culture in the Age of Goethe I.Visions/Revisions of the Neoclassical Aesthetic Melissa DABAKIS: Angelika Kauffmann, Goethe, and the Arcadian Academy in Rome Catriona MACLEOD: Sweetmeats for the Eye: Porcelain Miniatures in Classical Weimar Beate ALLERT: Goethe, Runge, Friedrich: On Painting Margaretmary DALEY: The Gendered Eye of the Beholder: The Co-ed Art History of the Jena Romantics Mary Helen DUPREE: Elise in Weimar: “Actress-Writers” and the Resistance to Classicism Patricia Anne SIMPSON: Visions of the Nation: Goethe, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and Ernst Moritz Arndt II. The Violence of Vision: Science, Technology, and the Stage of Language Evelyn K. MOORE: Goethe and Lavater: A Specular Friendship Elliott SCHREIBER: Towards an Aesthetics of the Sublime Augenblick: Reading Karl Philipp Moritz Reading Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werthers Clark S. MUENZER: Fugitive Images and Visual Memory in Goethe’s Discourse on Color Eric Hadley DENTON: The Technological Eye: Theater Lighting and Guckkasten in Michaelis and Goethe Astrida Orle TANTILLO: The Subjective Eye: Goethe’s Farbenlehre and Faust Heide CRAWFORD: Poetically Visualizing Urgestalten. The Union of Nature, Art, and the Love of a Woman in Goethe’s “Die Metamorphose der Pflanzen” Richard BLOCK: Scribbles from Italy: Cy Twombly’s Experiment in Seeing Goethe See Language III. Appendix Notes on the Contributors Index