Vision and Its Instruments
Pennsylvania State University Press (Verlag)
978-0-271-06390-4 (ISBN)
Starting with Brunelleschi’s invention of perspective and Galileo’s invention of the telescope—two inaugural moments in the history of vision, from two apparently distinct provinces, art and science—this volume of essays by noted art, architecture, science, philosophy, and literary historians teases out the multiple strands of the discourse about sight in the early modern period. Looking at Leonardo and Gallaccini, at botanists, mathematicians, and artists from Dante to Dürer to Shakespeare, and at photography and film as pointed modern commentaries on early modern seeing, Vision and Its Instruments revisits the complexity of the early modern economy of the image, of the eye, and of its instruments. The book explores the full range of early modern conceptions of vision, in which mal’occhio (the evil eye), witchcraft, spiritual visions, and phantasms, as well as the artist’s brush and the architect’s compass, were seen as providing knowledge equal to or better than newly developed scientific instruments and practices (and occasionally working in conjunction with them). The essays in this volume also bring a new dimension to the current discourse about image production and its cultural functions.
Alina Payne is Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction, Alina Payne
I. Epistemic Images
1Epistemic Images, Lorraine Daston
2Drawing as an Instrument of Knowledge: The Case of Conrad Gessner, Sachiko Kusukawa
3Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in Early Modern Science, Catherine Wilson
II. Seeing the Unseeable
4Leonardo’s Point, Frank Fehrenbach
5Beyond the Eye: Observing the Unseen in Mathematics and Architecture, Alina Payne
6Dante’s Eyes and the Abysses of Seeing: Poetical Optics and Concepts of Images in the Divine Comedy, Gerhard Wolf
7The Invisible Element in Art: Dürer, Shakespeare, Donne, Carla Mazzio
III. The Painter’s Brush and the Mind’s Eye
8“Art on the Tip of the Brush”: A Blind Manœuvre? Reflections on Correggio’s Brush, Arent de Gelder’s Spatula, and Pietro Testa’s Figure of Practice, Nicola Suthor
9White Earth, or How to Cultivate Color in the Field of Painting: Still Life and Baroque Color Theory, Karin Leonhard
10Counterfeit Chimeras: Early Modern Theories of the Imagination and the Work of Art, Claudia Swan
IV. Looking Back: From Photography and Film to Alberti
11Sculpture Before Photography, Michael Cole
12From Alberti’s Finestra Aperta to Hitchcock’s Rear Window: Avatars of the Scopic Drive in Painting and Film, Victor I. Stoichita
List of Contributors
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.03.2017 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 64 Halftones, color; 39 Halftones, black and white |
| Verlagsort | University Park |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 229 x 254 mm |
| Gewicht | 1383 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-271-06390-4 / 0271063904 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-271-06390-4 / 9780271063904 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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