Title & Author:

Prints and the pursuit of knowledge in early modern Europe / edited by Susan Dackerman ; with essays by Susan Dackerman [and others].

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard Art Museums ; New Haven [Conn.] : Distributed by Yale University Press, ©2011.

Description:

442 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 32 cm

Notes:
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Harvard Art Museums, Sept. 6-Dec. 10, 2011, and the Block Museum of Art, Jan. 17-Apr. 8, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Prints as instruments / Susan Dackerman -- Printmaking and knowledge -- Constellations and configurations -- Observing nature -- Observation / Lorraine Daston -- The rhinoceros -- Dürer's indexical fantasy : the rhinoceros and printmaking / Susan Dackerman -- Theater of nature -- Illustrated natural history / Claudia Swan -- Measurement -- Printed instruments -- Georg Hartmann and the development of printed instruments in Nuremberg / Suzanne Karr Schmidt -- Mapping -- Allegory -- Allegories of knowledge / Katharine Park.

Summary:

"An unusual collaboration among distinguished art historians and historians of science, this book demonstrates how printmakers of the Northern Renaissance, far from merely illustrating the ideas of others, contributed to scientific investigations of their time. Hans Holbein, for instance, worked with cosmographers and instrument makers on some of the earliest sundial manuals published; Albrecht Durer produced the first printed maps of the constellations, which astronomers copied for over a century; and, Hendrick Goltzius' depiction of the muscle-bound Hercules served as a study aid for students of anatomy. "Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" features fascinating reproductions of woodcuts, engravings, and etchings; maps, globe gores, and globes; multilayered anatomical 'flap' prints; and, paper scientific instruments used for observation and measurement. Among the 'do-it-yourself' paper instruments were sundials and astrolabes, and the book incorporates a facsimile of globe gores for the reader to cut out and assemble."-- Publisher description.

Resources:
Related resource

ISBN:

9781891771583 (Harvard Art Museums ; alk. paper)
1891771582 (Harvard Art Museums ; alk. paper)
9780300171075 (Yale University Press (distributor) ; alk. paper)
0300171072 (Yale University Press (distributor) ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Prints, European 16th century Exhibitions.
Prints, Renaissance Exhibitions.
Art and science Exhibitions.
Knowledge, Sociology of Exhibitions.
Medicine, Medieval.
Mass media.
History, Medieval
Mass Media
Knowledge
Communications Media
Estampe européenne 16e siècle Expositions.
Estampe de la Renaissance Expositions.
Art et sciences Expositions.
Sociologie de la connaissance Expositions.
Médecine médiévale.
Médias.
mass media.
Art and Design.
Art and science
Intellectual life
Knowledge, Sociology of
Prints, European
Prints, Renaissance
Illustration
Wissenschaft
Grafisk konst historia.
Konst och vetenskap utställningskataloger.
Konst och vetenskap idéhistoriska aspekter.
Tryckning historia.
Tryckerihistoria.
Bildning historia.
Intellektuellt liv historia.
Bokkonst 1500-talet utställningskataloger.
Europe Intellectual life 16th century Exhibitions.
Europe.
Europe Vie intellectuelle 16e siècle Expositions.

Form/genre:

Catalog
Exhibition.
Exhibition catalogs.
catalogs (documents)
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogs
Exhibition catalogues.
Catalogues.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Dackerman, Susan.
Harvard Art Museums.
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 274479
Call No.: BIB 208222
Status: Available