中文简介：

火山是上帝的惩罚吗？苍蝇和桑葚有什么共同之处？在地球及其他未开发的角落有什么乌托邦在等待着？在启蒙运动期间，诸如此类的问题通过一系列惊人的版画和图画变得栩栩如生，帮助塑造公众舆论并引发政治变革。本书颠覆了关于这个时代的普遍假设，利用这个时代大量的纸上作品来讲述一个更细致的故事。本书与狄德罗的《百科全书》的结构和内容相呼应，包含26个章节，从A到Z排列，为50多位艺术家提供了独特的视角，包括亨利·富塞利、让·奥诺雷·弗拉戈纳尔、弗朗西斯科·戈雅、让·巴蒂斯特·格吕兹、威廉·霍加斯、乔万尼·巴蒂斯塔·皮拉内西和詹巴迪斯塔·提埃波罗。本书从多学科的角度，通过图形艺术的视角，探究了自然科学、技术、经济等方面的发展。

英文简介：

Are volcanoes punishment from God? What do a fly and a mulberry have in common? What utopias await in unexplored corners of the earth and beyond? During the Enlightenment, questions like these were brought to life through an astonishing array of prints and drawings, helping shape public opinion and stir political change. Dare to Know overturns common assumptions about the age, using the era's proliferation of works on paper to tell a more nuanced story. Echoing the structure and sweep of Diderot's Encyclopédie, the book contains 26 thematic essays, organized A to Z, providing an unprecedented perspective on more than 50 artists, including Henry Fuseli, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Francisco Goya, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, William Hogarth, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, and Giambattista Tiepolo. With a multidisciplinary approach, the book probes developments in the natural sciences, technology, economics, and more―all through the lens of the graphic arts.