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Item Number: 133474
Title: Vision and Its Instruments : Art, Science, and Technology in Early Modern Europe
Author: Payne, Alina (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780271063898
Description: University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2015. 26cm., hardcover, 304pp., 64 color, 39 b&w illus. Includes: L. Daston, Epistemic Images ; S. Kusukawa, Drawings as an Instrument of Knowledge - The Case of Conrad Gessner ; C. Wilson, Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in Early Modern Science ; F. Fehrenbach, Leonardo's Point ; A. Payne, Beyond the Eye - Observing the Unseen in Mathematics and Architecture ; G. Wolf, Dante's Eyes and the Abysses of Seeing - Poetical Optics and Concepts of Images in the Divine Comedy ; C. Mazzio, The Invisible Element in Art - Dürer, Shakespeare, Donne ; N. Suthor, "Art on the Tip of the Brush" - A Blind Manoeuvre? Reflections on Correggio's Brush, Arent de Gelder's Spatula, and Pietro Testa's Figure of Practice ; K. Leonhard, White Earth, or How to Cultivate Color in the Field of Painting - Still Life and Baroque Color Theory ; C. Swan, Counterfeit Chimeras - Early Modern Theories of the imagination and the Work of Art ; M. Cole, Sculpture Before Photography ; V. Stoichita, From Alberti's Finesta Aperta to Hitchcock's Rear Window - Avatars of the Scopic Drive in Painting and Film.
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