Marshall, Nancy Rose.

Victorian Science and Imagery : Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (374 pages)

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 & -- 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.

9780822987994


Art and science-19th century.
Art and science-England-19th century.


Electronic books.

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701.05