CLEVELAND, Ohio – Roll over Voltaire and tell Kant and Hobbes the news. The Cleveland Museum of Art has trained focus on the Enlightenment period in Europe (1685–1815, aka “the age of reason ...

Okakura Kakuzo (1863-1913) was very much a product of the Meiji Era that he so revolted against. No slogans about progress and enlightenment for him. He thought that Japan was already enlightened ...

Sustained funding from the “Sun King,” Louis XIV, who invested in art and culture ... or political movement, there were proponents of the Enlightenment who wished to carry its principles ...

Whereas in the Polish Enlightenment, these two areas were treated as complementary means of achieving progress. Keeping a watchful eye on cultural and scientific progress was inscribed in the social ...

The exhibition highlights the variety of ways the Gentlings’ immersive engagement with the Age of Enlightenment inspired their art making in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

He also wasn’t a conservative in any traditional sense, for there was little that he, and others in the Futurist art movement ... rise of the “Dark Enlightenment” movement and its most ...

It emerged in France in the 1840s as a rejection of traditional forms of art and literature deemed obsolete in the wake of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. The movement emphasized ...