Picturing Science, Producing Art

Peter Galison, Caroline A. Jones, Peter Galison, Caroline A. Jones

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781135207496
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Between the disciplines of art history and the history of science lies a growing field of inquiry into what science and art share as both image-making and knowledge-producing activities. The contributors of Picturing Science, Producing Art occupy this intermediate zone to analyze both scientific and aesthetic representations, utilizing disciplinary perspectives that range from art history to sociology, history and philosophy of science to gender studies, cultural history to the philosophy of mind. Organized in five sites--Styles, The Body, Seeing Wonders, Objectivity/Subjectivity, and Cultures of Vision--their topics extend from Cinquecento theories of female reproduction to the technologies of cloning, from medieval depictions of the stigmata to electrical metaphors for sex, from astronomical drawings to radioencephalography, from Phoenician griffons carved in ivory to factories cast in concrete. The internationally renowned contributors go beyond both science wars and culture wars by exploring substantive links between systems of visual representation and knowledge in science and art. Contributors include Svetlana Alpers, Jonathan Crary, Arnold Davidson, Carlo Ginzburg, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and Simon Schaffer.

Index

Aberthaw Construction Company, 80, 81, 90, 96n.15

abortifacients: European attack on knowledge of, 137; Europeans declining to collect herbal, 126; flos pavonis as, 125, 137; flour fence as, 137, 138; knowledge of in women's sphere, 140; of West Indies, 138

abortion: rate in seventeenth century, 140, 144n.69; by slave women, 138–39; states opposing acceptance of, 140. See also abortifacients

absence: attention as inseparable from, 492; pointing at, 418–21

absent-mindedness, 491

Academy of the Lynxes ( Accademia dei Lincei): Apes Dianiae, 274, 276, 279–81; Apiarium, 274, 277, 281–88, 286; ethnographic range of, 293–94; and Galileo's Assayer, 282–83; Melissographia, 274, 275, 278–79, 291; Persio, 288–93; Tesoro Messicano, 283, 289, 293; vernacular used by, 292–93

accommodation, 29, 32

Achaemenid seal carvings, 76n.38

"achievement-motivation" tests, 66

Achuden, Itty, 134

Ackerman, James, 72, 77n.45

Adanson, Michel, 136

Adorno, Theodor, 46–47, 491

advertisements: for clothing, 71 ; by E-C Apparatus Company, 192, 193, 195, 196–97, 203; for genetic research technologies, 12, 191; Global Native, 201, 202; as official

art of capitalism, 12, 191; in technoscience, 203–5

Aelian, 282

Aertsen, Pieter, 407

aesthetics: art history as freed from, 422; Cousinian, 371–74; Fry on, 490n.50; Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics, 36,40

Agassiz, George R., 331

agency: in organization of form, 56; style as, 66–73; of the work of art, 150

AIDS, 194

Airy, George, 466

Alberti, Leon Battista, 262–63

Albertus Magnus: on astronomical sigils, 268; on generation, 258; on naturally impressed images, 258; on Ptolemy cameo, 232, 237, 241, 258; on women's characteristics, 260

Albinus, Bernard Siegfried, 346

alchemy, 287

Aldobrandesca of Siena, 264

Alexander IV (pope), 102

Alhazen, 214

Allemagne, L' (de Staël), 373–74

Alpers, Svetlana, 9, 18, 49n.18, 82

altarpieces, retable, 310, 313

altars, 310, 316

alternative realities, 299, 300, 305

Ambrose, 282

Américaine (Picabia), 154, 156

American Nervousness (Beard), 161, 177n.35

anatomic realism, 346

ancients, versus moderns, 31–32

Anderson, J., 51n.59

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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Styles
• The Body
• Seeing Wonders
• Objectivity/Subjectivity
• Cultures of Vision
• Contributors
• Index