Las luces figuradas: imágenes de dispositivos tecnocientíficos y secularización en la España del siglo XVIII: retratos, linternas mágicas y globos (2008)
Labrador Méndez, Germán (Author)
Cuadernos Dieciochistas: revista consagrada al estudio de la historia, el pensamiento, la literatura, el arte y la ciencia del siglo XVIII
Volume: 9
Pages: 49--78
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Imágenes del siglo XVIII y el siglo XVIII en imágenes”
This paper asembles and studies a set of iconological representations linked to technical and scientific transformations during the eighteenth Century in Spain, reading them in a dialectic between modern science, Enlightenment policies and popular culture. After analyzing the emergence of representations both of science and scientists according to the process of institutionalizing science as a socio-professional language, two specific eighteenth century technologies are studied: magic lanterns and aerostats. By interpreting their first images and their infiltration into popular and official speeches and the imagination of the moment, it is argued that in those images a tale of demo-Enlightenment is expressed, a tale about secularization and progress as a collective aesthetic experience.
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