"Double Edges: Scissors and Paper in Romanticism"
Presented by the Department of Germanic Studies:
Catriona MacLeod
University of Pennsylvania, Editor, Word & Image
Lecture: "Double Edges: Scissors and Paper in Romanticism"
Drawn from Professor MacLeod's current book project, Romantic Scraps: Cutouts, Collages, and Inkblots, "Double Edges" highlights the cryptic and often violent potency of papercuts by female artists associated with bourgeois salons. This alongside Karl Varnhagen von Ense's 1814 essay "Vom Ausschneiden."