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Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Visual Culture (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century) by Nancy Rose Marshall (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Visual Culture (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century) about?
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 theories—such as Darwin’s theory of evolution and sexual selection—deliberately drawing on concepts in ways that allowed them to refute popular claims or disrupt conventional knowledges. 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
Who reads Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Visual Culture (Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century)?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Nancy Rose Marshall (editor)
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780822946533
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Philosophy, Medical