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Victorian Science and Imagery : Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: PIttsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (374 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780822987994
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Victorian Science and ImageryDDC classification:
  • 701.05
LOC classification:
  • N72
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Victorian Science and Imagery | Nancy Rose Marshall -- Chapter 1. Measuring Native America: Early American Archaeology and the Politics of Time | Rachael Z. DeLue -- Chapter 2. "All That Is Solid Melts into Air": Burne-Jones, Glaciation, and the Matter of History | Alison Syme -- Chapter 3. Grasping the Elusive: Victorian Weather Forecasting and Arthur Hughes's Illustrations for George Macdonald's At the Back of the North Wind | Carey Gibbons -- Color Gallery -- Chapter 4. A Haunting Picture, in Light of Victorian Science: John Everett Millais's Speak! Speak! | Nancy Rose Marshall -- Chapter 5. Photographing Ether, Documenting Pain: Representing the Chemical Invisible in the Daguerreotypes of Southworth &amp -- Hawes | Naomi Slipp -- Chapter 6. Drawing Racial Comparisons in Nineteenth-Century British and American Anatomical Atlases | Keren Rosa Hammerschlag -- Chapter 7. The Post-Darwinian Eye, Physiological Aesthetics, and the Early Years of Aestheticism, 1860-1876 | Barbara Larson -- Chapter 8. Darwinian Aesthetics and Aestheticism in James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room | Caitlin Silberman -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.
Summary: An Argument for Art and Science as Practices and Knowledges that Emerge from Shared Epistemologies Rather than Compartmentalized Disciplines.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Victorian Science and Imagery | Nancy Rose Marshall -- Chapter 1. Measuring Native America: Early American Archaeology and the Politics of Time | Rachael Z. DeLue -- Chapter 2. "All That Is Solid Melts into Air": Burne-Jones, Glaciation, and the Matter of History | Alison Syme -- Chapter 3. Grasping the Elusive: Victorian Weather Forecasting and Arthur Hughes's Illustrations for George Macdonald's At the Back of the North Wind | Carey Gibbons -- Color Gallery -- Chapter 4. A Haunting Picture, in Light of Victorian Science: John Everett Millais's Speak! Speak! | Nancy Rose Marshall -- Chapter 5. Photographing Ether, Documenting Pain: Representing the Chemical Invisible in the Daguerreotypes of Southworth &amp -- Hawes | Naomi Slipp -- Chapter 6. Drawing Racial Comparisons in Nineteenth-Century British and American Anatomical Atlases | Keren Rosa Hammerschlag -- Chapter 7. The Post-Darwinian Eye, Physiological Aesthetics, and the Early Years of Aestheticism, 1860-1876 | Barbara Larson -- Chapter 8. Darwinian Aesthetics and Aestheticism in James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room | Caitlin Silberman -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.

An Argument for Art and Science as Practices and Knowledges that Emerge from Shared Epistemologies Rather than Compartmentalized Disciplines.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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