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“Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment,” is a special exhibition which looks at 150 works on paper from the 18th century that were a site for experimentation and a place to dream a new way of life and a new reality. The exhibition asks new and sometimes uncomfortable questions of the so-called age of reason, inviting visitors to embrace the Enlightenment’s same spirit of inquiry—to investigate, to persuade, and to imagine. Exhibition is on view at the Harvard Art Museums through January 15, 2023. #DareToKnow | “Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment,” is a special exhibition which looks at 150 works on paper from the 18th century that were a site for experimentation and a place to dream a new way of life and a new reality. The exhibition asks new and sometimes uncomfortable questions of the so-called age of reason, inviting visitors to embrace the Enlightenment’s same spirit of inquiry—to investigate, to persuade, and to imagine. Exhibition is on view at the Harvard Art Museums through January 15, 2023. #DareToKnow | ||
=====A Beginner's Guide to the Enlightenment===== | |||
[https://www.thoughtco.com/a-beginners-guide-to-the-enlightenment-1221925 by Robert Wilde 27/1/18 ThoughtCo.] | |||
The Enlightenment has been defined in many different ways, but at its broadest was a philosophical, intellectual and cultural movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It stressed reason, logic, criticism, and freedom of thought over dogma, blind faith, and superstition. Logic wasn’t a new invention, having been used by the ancient Greeks, but it was now included in a worldview which argued that empirical observation and the examination of human life could reveal the truth behind human society and self, as well as the universe. | |||
