Marshall, Nancy Rose (Editor)
The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and when art and visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human in the natural world. Just as scientists relied on graphic representation to conceptualize their ideas, artists moved seamlessly between scientific debate and creative expression to support or contradict popular scientific theories—such as Darwin’s theory of evolution and sexual selection—deliberately drawing on concepts in ways that allowed them to refute popular claims or disrupt conventional knowledges. Focusing on the close kinship between the arts and sciences during the Victorian period, the art historians contributing to this volume reveal the unique ways in which nineteenth-century British and American visual culture participated in making science, and in which science informed art at a crucial moment in the history of the development of the modern world. Together, they explore topics in geology, meteorology, medicine, anatomy, evolution, and zoology, as well as a range of media from photography to oil painting. They remind us that science and art are not tightly compartmentalized, separate influences. Rather, these are fields that share forms, manifest as waves, layers, lines, or geometries; that invest in the idea of the evolution of form; and that generate surprisingly kindred responses, such as pain, pleasure, empathy, and sympathy.
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Fairman, Elisabeth R.;
Art, Yale Center for British;
(2014)
Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower: Artists' Books and the Natural World
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Article
Hackmann, Willem;
(2007)
The Iconography of Early Electricity
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Book
Hoffman, Christoph;
(2008)
Daten sichern. Schreiben und Zeichnen als Verfahren der Aufzeichnung
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Article
Kelly Krause;
(2016)
A Framework for Visual Communication at Nature
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Article
Tevebring, Frederika;
(2012)
Unveiling the Goddess. Artemis of Ephesus as a Symbol of Nature at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
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Book
Keller, Susanne B.;
(2006)
Naturgewalt im Bild: Strategien visueller Naturaneignung in Kunst und Wissenschaft, 1750--1830
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Book
Hans-Jörg Wilke;
(2018)
Die Geschichte der Tierillustration in Deutschland 1850–1950
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Article
Anderson, Gemma;
(2014)
Endangered: A Study of Morphological Drawing in Zoological Taxonomy
(/isis/citation/CBB001201296/)
Book
Olsen, Penny;
(2008)
A Brush with Birds: Australian Bird Art from the National Library of Australia
(/isis/citation/CBB001033757/)
Book
Anna K. Sagal;
(2021)
Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England
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Article
Kees van Putten;
(2020)
Trees, Coral, and Seaweed: An Interpretation of Sketches Found in Darwin’s Papers
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Book
Simon Martin;
(2022)
Drawn to Nature: Gilbert White and the Artists
(/isis/citation/CBB006150765/)
Book
Jorink, Eric;
Ramakers, Bart;
(2011)
Art and Science in the Early Modern Netherlands
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Chapter
Vermij, Rienk;
(2011)
The Light of Nature and the Allegorisation of Science on Dutch Frontispieces around 1700
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Article
Kusukawa, Sachiko;
(2011)
Patron's Review: The Role of Images in the Development of Renaissance Natural History
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Book
Anna Marie Roos;
(2019)
Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters: The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century
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Thesis
Doherty, Meghan C.;
(2010)
Carving Knowledge: Printed Images, Accuracy, and the Early Royal Society of London
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Article
Acheson, Katherine;
(2009)
The Picture of Nature: Seventeenth-Century English Aesop's Fables
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Book
Attenborough, David;
Owens, Susan;
Clayton, Martin;
Alexandratos, Rea;
(2007)
Amazing Rare Things: The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery
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Neri, Janice;
(2011)
The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500--1700
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