Title & Author:

Picturing science, producing art / Caroline A. Jones, Peter Galison, editors ; with Amy Slaton.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1998.

Description:

x, 518 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Style as inclusion, style as exclusion / Carlo Ginzburg -- The affective properties of styles : an inquiry into analytical process and the inscription of meaning in art history / Irene J. Winter -- Style/type/standard : the production of technological resemblance / Amy Slaton -- Miracles of bodily transformation, or, how St. Francis received the stigmata / Arnold Davidson -- Lost knowledge, bodies of ignorance, and the poverty of taxonomy as illustrated by the curious fate of Flos pavonis, an abortifacient / Londa Schiebinger -- The sex of the machine : mechanomorphic art, new women, and Francis Picabia's neurasthenic cure / Caroline A. Jones -- Deanimations : maps and portraits of life itself / Donna Haraway -- Vision and cognition / Krzysztof Pomian -- Nature by design / Lorraine Daston -- Impressed images : reproducing wonders / Katharine Park -- Iconography between the history of art and the history of science : art, science, and the case of the urban bee / David Freedberg -- Hieronymus Bosch's world picture / Joseph Leo Koerner -- Judgement against objectivity / Peter Galison -- Eclectic subjectivity and the impossibility of female beauty / Jan Goldstein --Visualization and visibility / Joel Snyder -- The studio, the laboratory, and the vexations of art / Svetlana Alpers -- How to be iconophilic in art, science, and religion? / Bruno Latour -- On astronomical drawing / Simon Schaffer -- Attention and modernity in the nineteenth century / Jonathan Crary.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0415919118 (acid-free paper)
9780415919111 (acid-free paper)
0415919126
9780415919128

Subject:

Art and science.
Art et sciences.
Kunst
Naturwissenschaften
Wissenschaft
Technik
Erkenntnis
Ästhetische Wahrnehmung
Wetenschap.
èAsthetische Wahrnehmung.
Aufsatzsammlung

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Added entries:

Jones, Caroline A.
Galison, Peter, 1955-
Slaton, Amy E., 1957-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 223577
Call No.: N72.S3 P5 1998
Status: Available