Vision and Its Instruments

Art, Science, and Technology in Early Modern Europe

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

Av Alina Payne, Harvard University) Payne, Alina (Sackler Museum

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-03-20
Mått229 x 254 x 28 mm
Vikt1 678 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagPennsylvania State University Press
ISBN9780271063898

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ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction, Alina PayneI. Epistemic Images1Epistemic Images, Lorraine Daston2Drawing as an Instrument of Knowledge: The Case of Conrad Gessner, Sachiko Kusukawa3Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in Early Modern Science, Catherine WilsonII. Seeing the Unseeable4Leonardo’s Point, Frank Fehrenbach5Beyond the Eye: Observing the Unseen in Mathematics and Architecture, Alina Payne6Dante’s Eyes and the Abysses of Seeing: Poetical Optics and Concepts of Images in the Divine Comedy, Gerhard Wolf7The Invisible Element in Art: Dürer, Shakespeare, Donne, Carla MazzioIII. The Painter’s Brush and the Mind’s Eye8“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 Suthor9White Earth, or How to Cultivate Color in the Field of Painting: Still Life and Baroque Color Theory, Karin Leonhard10Counterfeit Chimeras: Early Modern Theories of the Imagination and the Work of Art, Claudia SwanIV. Looking Back: From Photography and Film to Alberti11Sculpture Before Photography, Michael Cole12From Alberti’s Finestra Aperta to Hitchcock’s Rear Window: Avatars of the Scopic Drive in Painting and Film, Victor I. StoichitaList of ContributorsIndex

“The book’s subject is also part of the experience of reading it: the generous provision of illustrations offers patterns of analogy and juxtaposition that present the reader with their own epistemic images. Payne’s introduction proposes that Renaissance art and science conceived of sight as performance and event. In the complex acts of seeing performed in these essays, and those they encourage in the reader, the book illustrates as well as argues its own propositions.”—Kathryn Murphy Apollo Magazine