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Victorian science & imagery, representation and knowledge in nineteenth century visual culture, edited by Nancy Rose Marshall

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Victorian science & imagery

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edited by Nancy Rose Marshall

Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

representation and knowledge in nineteenth century visual culture

The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and 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. This volume reminds us that science and art are not tightly compartmentalized, separate influences, but rather fields that shared forms - manifest as waves, layers, lines, or geometries - and invest in the idea of the evolution of form. --, Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note:, ch. 1, Measuring Native America: Early American Archaeology and the Politics of Time, Rachael Z. DeLue, ch. 2, "All That Is Solid Melts into Air": Burne-Jones, Glaciation, and the Matter of History, Alison Syme, ch. 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 follows page, ch. 4, A Haunting Picture, in Light of Victorian Science: John Everett Millais's Speak! Speak!, Nancy Rose Marshall, ch. 5, Photographing Ether, Documenting Pain: Representing the Chemical Invisible in the Daguerreotypes of Southworth & Hawes, Naomi Slipp, ch. 6, Drawing Racial Comparisons in Nineteenth-Century British and American Anatomical Atlases, Keren Rosa Hammerschlag, ch. 7, The Post-Darwinian Eye, Physiological Aesthetics, and the Early Years of Aestheticism, 1860 -- 1876, Barbara Larson, ch. 8, Darwinian Aesthetics and Aestheticism in James McNeill Whistler's Peacock Room, Caitlin Silberman

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