by Jon Lackman | 19 October 2006 | Books, Modern, Museums
Goya’s Caprichos are currently on view in Milan’s Galleria Bellinzona (through Oct. 28). Three hundred copies of the 80-part series of etchings and aquatints were printed in February 1799. At CAA Reviews, Tara Zanardi recently reviewed Andrew Schulz’s book, Goya’s Caprichos: Aesthetics, Perception, and the Body. She credits Schulz with showing the significance of the senses and their inversions (e.g., blindness and deafness) for Goya, in terms of Locke’s theory of sensationalism – this complements other recent literary and cultural-historical readings. Schulz also deals with the grotesque, the Spanish print market, and Goya’s transition from Neoclassical to Romantic. (See also Schulz on Goya in Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Art Bulletin.)
