Picturing Science, Producing Art

by Jones, Caroline

• ISBN13: 9780415919111
• ISBN10: 0415919118
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-18
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Between the disciplines of art history and the history of science lies a growing field of inquiry into what science and art share as both image-making and knowledge-producing activities. The contributors ofPicturing Science, Producing Artoccupy this intermediate zone to analyze both scientific and aesthetic representations, utilizing disciplinary perspectives that range from art history to sociology, history and philosophy of science to gender studies, cultural history to the philosophy of mind. Organized in five sites--Styles, The Body, Seeing Wonders, Objectivity/Subjectivity, and Cultures of Vision--their topics extend from Cinquecento theories of female reproduction to the technologies of cloning, from medieval depictions of the stigmata to electrical metaphors for sex, from astronomical drawings to radioencephalography, from Phoenician griffons carved in ivory to factories cast in concrete. The internationally renowned contributors go beyond both science wars and culture wars byexploring substantive links between systems of visual representation and knowledge in science and art. Contributors include Svetlana Alpers, Jonathan Crary, Arnold Davidson, Carlo Ginzburg, Donna Haraway, Bruno Latour, and Simon Schaffer.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	vii
CAROLINE A. JONES
PETER GALISON
Introduction	1	(26)
Styles	27	(74)
CARLO GINZBURG
Style as Inclusion, Style as Exclusion	27	(28)
IRENE J. WINTER
The Affective Properties of Styles: An Inquiry into Analytical Process and the Inscription of Meaning in Art History	55	(23)
AMY SLATON
Style/Type/Standard: The Production of Technological Resemblance	78	(23)
The Body	101	(110)
ARNOLD DAVIDSON
Miracles of Bodily Transformation, or, How St. Francis Received the Stigmata	101	(24)
LONDA SCHIEBINGER
Lost Knowledge, Bodies of Ignorance, and the Poverty of Taxonomy as Illustrated by the Curious Fate of Flos Pavonis, an Abortifacient	125	(20)
CAROLINE A. JONES
The Sex of the Machine: Mechanomorphic Art, New Women, and Francis Picabia's Neurasthenic Cure	145	(36)
DONNA HARAWAY
Deanimations: Maps and Portraits of Life Itself	181	(30)
Seeing Wonders	211	(116)
KAZYSZTOF POMIAN
Vision and Cognition	211	(21)
LORRAINE DASTON
Nature by Design	232	(22)
KATHARINE PARK
Impressed Images: Reproducing Wonders	254	(18)
DAVID FREEDBERG
Iconography between the History of Art and the History of Science: Art, Science, and the Case of the Urban Bee	272	(25)
JOSEPH LEO KOERNER
Hieronymus Bosch's World Picture	297	(30)
Objectivity/Subjectivity	327	(74)
PETER GALISON
Judgment against Objectivity	327	(33)
JAN GOLDSTEIN
Eclectic Subjectivity and the Impossibility of Female Beauty	360	(19)
JOEL SNYDER
Visualization and Visibility	379	(22)
Cultures of Vision	401	(100)
SVETLANA ALPERS
The Studio, the Laboratory, and the Vexations of Art	401	(17)
BRUNO LATOUR
How to Be Iconophilic in Art, Science, and Religion?	418	(23)
SIMON SCHAFFER
On Astronomical Drawing	441	(34)
JONATHAN CRARY
Attention and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century	475	(26)
Contributors	501	(4)
Index	504