Victorian Science and Imagery (eBook)

Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture

Nancy Rose Marshall (Herausgeber)

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2021
528 Seiten
University of Pittsburgh Press (Verlag)
978-0-8229-8799-4 (ISBN)

Infos

The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and when art and visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human in the natural world. Just as scientists relied on graphic representation to conceptualize their ideas, artists moved seamlessly between scientific debate and creative expression to support or contradict popular scientific theoriessuch as Darwins theory of evolution and sexual selectiondeliberately drawing on concepts in ways that allowed them to refute popular claims or disrupt conventional knowledges.<br><br>Focusing on the close kinship between the arts and sciences during the Victorian period, the art historians contributing to this volume reveal the unique ways in which nineteenth-century British and American visual culture participated in making science, and in which science informed art at a crucial moment in the history of the development of the modern world. Together, they explore topics in geology, meteorology, medicine, anatomy, evolution, and zoology, as well as a range of media from photography to oil painting. They remind us that science and art are not tightly compartmentalized, separate influences. Rather, these are fields that share forms, manifest as waves, layers, lines, or geometries; that invest in the idea of the evolution of form; and that generate surprisingly kindred responses, such as pain, pleasure, empathy, and sympathy.

Autor

Nancy Rose Marshall is a professor in the Art History Department of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.7.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
• Verlagsort: PIttsburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: historical anatomical graphics • historical infographics • History of Science • science in the nineteenth century • scientific art in the nineteenth century • Victorian era science
• ISBN-10: 0-8229-8799-6 / 0822987996
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8229-8799-4 / 9780822987994