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Author : Wolfgang Lefèvre
Release : 2003-01-01
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 347/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Power of Images in Early Modern Science by : Wolfgang Lefèvre
Download or read book The Power of Images in Early Modern Science written by Wolfgang Lefèvre. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wolfgang Lefèvre
Release : 2012-12-06
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 995/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Power of Images in Early Modern Science by : Wolfgang Lefèvre
Download or read book The Power of Images in Early Modern Science written by Wolfgang Lefèvre. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is dedicated to the role of visual representations in the history of early modern science. It brings together historical case studies from various fields and discusses epistemological questions such as the role of images as mediatory instances between practical and theoretical knowledge, the interaction between images and texts, and the potential of images to synthesize fragments of knowledge to a global picture.
Author : Wolfgang Lefèvre
Release : 2011-10-09
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 005/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Power of Images in Early Modern Science by : Wolfgang Lefèvre
Download or read book The Power of Images in Early Modern Science written by Wolfgang Lefèvre. This book was released on 2011-10-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is dedicated to the role of visual representations in the history of early modern science. It brings together historical case studies from various fields and discusses epistemological questions such as the role of images as mediatory instances between practical and theoretical knowledge, the interaction between images and texts, and the potential of images to synthesize fragments of knowledge to a global picture.
Author : Michael Hunter
Release : 2016-12-05
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 863/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Printed Images in Early Modern Britain by : Michael Hunter
Download or read book Printed Images in Early Modern Britain written by Michael Hunter. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Printed images were ubiquitous in early modern Britain, and they often convey powerful messages which are all the more important for having circulated widely at the time. Yet, by comparison with printed texts, these images have been neglected, particularly by historians to whom they ought to be of the greatest interest. This volume helps remedy this state of affairs. Complementing the online digital library of British Printed Images to 1700 (www.bpi1700.org.uk), it offers a series of essays which exemplify the many ways in which such visual material can throw light on the history of the period. Ranging from religion to politics, polemic to satire, natural science to consumer culture, the collection explores how printed images need to be read in terms of the visual syntax understood by contemporaries, their full meaning often only becoming clear when they are located in the context in which they were produced and deployed. The result is not only to illustrate the sheer richness of material of this kind, but also to underline the importance of the messages which it conveys, which often come across more strongly in visual form than through textual commentaries. With contributions from many leading exponents of the cultural history of early modern Britain, including experts on religion, politics, science and art, the book's appeal will be equally wide, demonstrating how every facet of British culture in the period can be illuminated through the study of printed images.
Author : David Freedberg
Release : 2013-02-01
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis The Power of Images by : David Freedberg
Download or read book The Power of Images written by David Freedberg. This book was released on 2013-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."—E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books "This is an engaged and passionate work by a writer with powerful convictions about art, images, aesthetics, the art establishment, and especially the discipline of art history. It is animated by an extraordinary erudition."—Arthur C. Danto, The Art Bulletin "Freedberg's ethnographic and historical range is simply stunning. . . . The Power of Images is an extraordinary critical achievement, exhilarating in its polemic against aesthetic orthodoxy, endlessly fascinating in its details. . . . This is a powerful, disturbing book."—T. J. Jackson Lears, Wilson Quarterly "Freedberg helps us to see that one cannot do justice to the images of art unless one recognizes in them the entire range of human responses, from the lowly impulses prevailing in popular imagery to their refinement in the great visions of the ages."—Rudolf Arnheim, Times Literary Supplement
