New Book | John Locke’s Impact on Literature and Pictorial Art
From Krysman Press:
Joachim Möller and Bernd Krysmanski, eds., Creative Reception: John Locke’s Impact on Literature and Pictorial Art (Dinslaken: Krysman Press, 2024), 384 pages, ISBN: 978-3000555626, €30.
The authors of this volume—all of them recognized representatives of a wide range of academic disciplines—agree that Locke’s work must have had a considerable influence both on English and German literature and the visual arts of Great Britain, especially in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. From the perspective of interdisciplinarity and intertextuality, the essays presented here deal with Locke as a source of ideas for Archibald Alison, John Constable, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith, Johann Timotheus Hermes, William Hogarth, Immanuel Kant, Martin Knutzen, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, George Lillo, Edward Moore, Johann Gottwerth Müller, Joshua Reynolds, Samuel Richardson, John Ruskin, Joseph Spence, Laurence Sterne, J. M. W. Turner, and Thomas Whately, among others.
Call for Papers | Emotions, Senses, and 18th-C. Art
From ArtHist.net:
The Emotions and the Senses in Eighteenth-Century Visual Art and Culture
Hogarth’s House, Chiswick (London), 6 June 2025
Proposals due by 31 January 2025
We invite scholars at all stages to submit papers for our upcoming conference, Senses and Feelings: Exploring Eighteenth-Century Visual Art, to be held on Friday, 6 June 2025 at Hogarth’s House in Chiswick.
Recent research has highlighted the nuanced understanding of emotional expression through its historical and contextual relevance. The eighteenth century has been identified by historical scholar such as Retford, Dixon, and Boddice as a critical era of change within emotional landscapes. Art theorists, importantly, have identified the nuanced role art plays in symbolising in an historical era and arousing emotions in its viewers.
We invite papers for an academic conference to mark the opening of a special exhibition on the Senses and Feelings in the Art of Hogarth. We encourage submissions that engage with these contemporary perspectives. Therefore, we welcome papers that explore topics including, but not limited to:
• The representation of emotions in painting and printmaking
• The representation of sensory practices and experience in visual culture
• The role of sensory perception in shaping artistic practices
• The intersection between the senses and the emotions in visual culture and artistic practice and expression
• Interdisciplinary approaches connecting art history and sensory studies
• The influence of societal and cultural shifts on artistic expressions of feeling or sensory experience
• The interplay between visual arts and culture and the ways social space, communities, and practices are defined or ordered by sensory or emotional practices
• The interpretation of sensory and emotional experience through visual culture in contemporary public or heritage settings
Please submit a 300-word abstract and a brief bio by 31 January 2025 to angela.platt@stmarys.ac.uk and stewart.mccain@stmarys.ac.uk. Selected papers will be presented at the conference, fostering rich discussions on how the visual arts of this pivotal era resonate with contemporary understandings of emotion and sensory experience.
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