Book ID: CBB466922035

Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Visual Culture (2021)

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Marshall, Nancy Rose (Editor)


University of Pittsburgh Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 352
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Attenborough, David
Krause, Kelly
Sagal, Anna Katerina
Putten, Kees van
Simon Martin
Hans-Jörg Wilke
Concepts
Scientific illustration
Visual representation; visual communication
Science and art
Natural history
Nature
Communication of scientific ideas
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
17th century
20th century
16th century
21st century
Places
Netherlands
Germany
England
London (England)
Australia
Great Britain
Institutions
Royal Society of London
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