Title & Author:

Vision and its instruments : art, science, and technology in early modern Europe / edited by Alina Payne.

Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2015]

Description:

xi, 287 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Epistemic Images -- Epistemic Images / Lorraine Daston -- Drawing as an Instrument of Knowledge: The Case of Conrad Gessner / Sachiko Kusukawa -- Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature in Early Modern Science / Catherine Wilson -- Seeing the Unseeable -- Leonardo's Point / Frank Fehrenbach -- Beyond the Eye: Observing the Unseen in Mathematics and Architecture / Alina Payne -- Dante's Eyes and the Abysses of Seeing: Poetical Optics and Concepts of Images in the Divine Comedy / Gerhard Wolf -- The Invisible Element in Art: Dürer, Shakespeare, Donne / Carla Mazzio.
The Painter's Brush and the Mind's Eye -- "Art on the Tip of the Brush": A Blind Manœuvre? Reflections on Correggio's Brush, Arent de Gelder's Spatula, and Pietro Testa's Figure of Practice / Nicola Suthor -- White Earth, or How to Cultivate Color in the Field of Painting: Still Life and Baroque Color Theory / Karin Leonhard -- Counterfeit Chimeras: Early Modern Theories of the Imagination and the Work of Art / Claudia Swan -- Looking Back: From Photography and Film to Alberti -- Sculpture Before Photography / Michael Cole -- From Alberti's Finestra Aperta to Hitchcock's Rear Window: Avatars of the Scopic Drive in Painting and Film / Victor I. Stoichita.

Summary:

"A collection of essays investigating the early modern debates on the nature of sight and its epistemic value"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780271063898 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0271063890 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0271063904
9780271063904

Subject:

Visual perception.
Art and science Europe.
Art and technology Europe.
Visual Perception
Perception visuelle.
Art et sciences Europe.
Art et technologie Europe.
visual perception.
20.05 art in relation with other areas of culture: general.
Art and science.
Art and technology.
Kunst
Optik
Visuelle Wahrnehmung
Wissenschaft
Visuell perception.
Konst och teknik.
Konst och vetenskap.
Europa.
Europe.

Added entries:

Payne, Alina Alexandra, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 290649
Call No.: BIB 233773
Status: Available