Article ID: CBB000640146

Nas frestas entre a ciência e a arte: uma série de ilustrações de barbeiros do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz (2004)

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Oliveira, Ricardo Lourenço de (Author)
Conduru, Roberto (Author)


História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Volume: 11
Pages: 335--384


Publication Date: 2004
Edition Details: Translated title: [In the gap between science and art: a series of illustrations of triatomine bugs from the Oswaldo Cruz Institute.] In Portuguese.
Language: Portuguese

The article analyzes a series of scientific drawings created and printed as part of a scientific work that has never been published out by the Oswaldo Cruz Institute. Deemed "incorrect" by scientists, these drawings lay abandoned for over seventy years. We have investigated their history in an effort to discover what might have led science to condemn the series. We also undertook a brief historical analysis of verisimilitude in scientific drawing. This case affords an interesting opportunity to explore some aspects of representation in artistic production, like issues involving vision, perception, the interpretation of images and visual communication through them, the functionality and objectivity of scientific illustration, as well as certain distinctions between the characteristics of illustration in zoology and in cartography and botany, and its ambiguous relationship with art. Keywords: scientific illustration; science and art; triatomines; Manguinhos illustrators; representation.

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Authors & Contributors
Richard Jones
Hans-Jörg Wilke
Nelson, E. C.
Williams, R. B.
Weltman, Wanda Latmann
Törnvall, Gunilla
Concepts
Visual representation; visual communication
Scientific illustration
Entomology
Science and art
Natural history
Insects
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
17th century
20th century
18th century
16th century
Places
Brazil
England
Germany
Amazon River Region (South America)
South America
Netherlands
Institutions
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Brazil)
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