Pulse en una miniatura para ir a Google Books.
Cargando... Knowing Nature: Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840por Amy R. W. Meyers (Editor/Contributor)
Ninguno Cargando...
Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A collection of essays all loosely connected to the conjunction of art and science/natural history in the Philadelphia region. The pieces vary widely, covering everything from artistic depictions of rattlesnake skeletons to textiles printed with botanical designs and the differences between color-printed and hand-colored books in the early nineteenth century. As usual with a volume like this there are wide variations, but the quality is uniformly high, and the frequent illustrations are very well reproduced. My only minor objection is that the volume is so large as to make it quite uncomfortable to read. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Philadelphia developed the most active scientific community in early America, fostering an influential group of naturalist-artists, including William Bartram, Charles Willson Peale, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon, whose work has been addressed by many monographic studies. However, as the groundbreaking essays in Knowing Nature demonstrate, the examination of nature stimulated not only forms of artistic production traditionally associated with scientific practice of the day, but processes of making not ordinarily linked to science. The often surprisingly intimate connections between and among these creative activities and the objects they engendered are explored through the essays in this book, challenging the hierarchy that is generally assumed to have been at play in the study of nature, from the natural sciences through the fine and decorative arts, and, ultimately, popular and material culture. Indeed, the many ways in which the means of knowing nature were reversed--in which artistic and artisanal culture informed scientific interpretations of the natural world--forms a central theme of this pioneering publication. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
Debates activosNinguno
Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)701.050974811The arts Modified subdivisions of the arts Philosophy and theory of fine and decorative artsClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |