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Voyage into substance: art, science, nature, and the illustrated travel account, 1760-1840
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ISBN: 0262192233 Year: 1984 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass.

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Good looking : Essays on the virtue of images
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ISBN: 0262193698 9780262692106 9780262193696 0262692104 Year: 1996 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press

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Building on the arguments of her previous books, Body Criticism (1991) and Artful Science (1994), Good Looking challenges the reflexive identification of images with vice. Today rampant criticism, both inside and outside the academy, condemns the immoralities of aesthetic illusion, museum display, cable television, and hypermedia. Believing with the American pragmatists that it is harder to do than to denounce, Barbara Stafford urges imagists to abandon Foucault's bankrupt paradigm of verbal combat. Instead of more "improving" theoretical discourse, she calls for developing a positive visual praxis on the interpretive ruins of linguistic postmodernism. Not deconstructive autopsy, but demonstrating the historical virtues of visualization for the emergent era of computerism is the task at hand. These twelve essays meditate on the stunning implications of a global shift toward vision and visionary modalities. Apparatus changes, but the basic questions endure. Machine dreams flowing from laser disks, video tapes, CD-ROMs, and magnetic disks are transforming educational, medical, and legal institutions as well as on-line society at large. Organized around three major themes - the explosion of optical information, the urgency of inventing an imaging interdiscipline, and the ethical dilemmas of technological transparency - these pieces connect a disappearing lens culture to the digital diaphanousness of the twenty-first century. Art historian Barbara Maria Stafford is William B. Odgen Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago and current president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. -- from back cover.

Artful science : enlightenment, entertainment, and the eclipse of visual education
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ISBN: 0262193426 9780262193429 9780262691819 0262691817 Year: 1994 Publisher: Cambridge, Mas. London : The M.I.T. Press,

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Optics [Psychological ] --- Perceptie [Visuele ] --- Perception [Visual ] --- Perception visuelle --- Vision--Psychological aspects --- Visual perception --- Visuele perceptie --- Visuele waarneming --- Waarneming [Visuele ] --- Optical illusions --- Scientific recreations --- Mathematical recreations --- Visual perception. --- Art, Modern --- Scientific literature --- Science --- History --- Study and teaching --- Medicine in Art. --- Optical Illusions. --- History, 18th Century. --- CDL --- 7.034 --- 18th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 18th Cent. History of Medicine --- 18th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 18th Century --- History of Medicine, 18th Cent. --- History, Eighteenth Century --- Medical History, 18th Cent. --- Medicine, 18th Cent. --- 18th Century History --- 18th Century Histories --- Cent. History, 18th (Medicine) --- Cent. Medicine, 18th --- Century Histories, 18th --- Century Histories, Eighteenth --- Century History, 18th --- Century History, Eighteenth --- Eighteenth Century Histories --- Eighteenth Century History --- Histories, 18th Century --- Histories, Eighteenth Century --- History, 18th Cent. (Medicine) --- Illusion, Optical --- Illusions, Optical --- Optical Illusion --- Science in Art --- Art, Medicine in --- Art, Science in --- Arts, Medicine in --- Arts, Science in --- Medicine in Arts --- Science in Arts --- in Art, Medicine --- in Art, Science --- in Arts, Medicine --- in Arts, Science --- Art --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Science literature --- Optics, Psychological --- Vision --- Perception --- Visual discrimination --- Mathematical puzzles --- Number games --- Recreational mathematics --- Recreations, Mathematical --- Puzzles --- Games in mathematics education --- Magic squares --- Magic tricks in mathematics education --- Amusements --- Hallucinations and illusions --- Physiological optics --- history. --- Psychological aspects --- Related to --- Visual arts --- Medicine in Art --- Optical Illusions --- History, 18th Century --- history --- Medicine in the Arts. --- 18th century --- Art [Modern ] --- 17th-18th centuries --- Optical illusions - History - 18th century. --- Scientific recreations - History - 18th century. --- Mathematical recreations - History - 18th century. --- Art, Modern - 17th-18th centuries. --- Scientific literature - History - 18th century. --- Science - Study and teaching - History - 18th century. --- Natural sciences --- Medicine in the Arts --- Art, Modern - 18th century. --- Illusions d'optique --- Illustration scientifique --- Peinture --- Art et sciences --- 18e siècle --- Documentation --- Étude et enseignement --- Europe

Echo objects : the cognitive work of images
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ISBN: 9780226770529 9780226770512 0226770516 0226770524 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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Barbara Stafford is at the forefront of a growing movement that calls for the humanities to confront the brain's material realities. In 'Echo Objects' she argues that humanists should seize upon the exciting neuroscientific discoveries that are illuminating the underpinnings of cultural objects. In turn, she contends, brain scientists could enrich their investigations of mental activity by incorporating phenomenological considerations& particularly the intricate ways that images focus intentional behavior and allow us to feel thought. This, then, is a book for both sides of the aisle, a stunningly broad exploration of how complex images& or patterns that compress space and time& make visible the invisible ordering of human consciousness. Stafford demonstrates, for example, how the compound formats of emblems, symbols, collage, and electronic media reveal the brain's grappling to construct mental objects that are redoubled by prior associations. On the other hand, she compellingly shows that findings in evolutionary biology and the neurosciences are providing profound opportunities for understanding aesthetic conundrums as old and deep-seated as the human urge to imitate, the mapping of inner space, and the role of narrative and nonnarrative representation. As precise in her discussions of firing neurons as she is about the coordinating dynamics of image making, Stafford locates these major transdisciplinary issues at the intersection of art, science, philosophy, and technology. Ultimately, she makes an impassioned plea for a common purpose& for the acknowledgement that, at the most basic level, these separate projects belong to a single investigation.

Body criticism : imaging the unseen in Enlightenment art and medicine
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ISBN: 0262193043 0262691655 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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Médecine et art --- Anatomie artistique --- Cultuurgeschiedenis: Verlichting; Aufklärung --- 930.85.48 Cultuurgeschiedenis: Verlichting; Aufklärung --- Anatomy, Artistic --- Body Image --- History, 18th Century --- Medicine in Art --- 769.04:61 --- 930.85.48 --- 61 <09> --- -Body image --- -Enlightenment --- Medicine and art --- -7.034 --- CDL --- Aufklärung --- Art and medicine --- Image, Body --- Artistic anatomy --- Human anatomy in art --- 61 <09> Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde --- Geschiedenis van de geneeskunde --- 769.04:61 Prentenverzamelingen in de grafische kunsten. Iconografie. Iconologie-:-Geneeskunde. Hygiëne. Farmacie --- Prentenverzamelingen in de grafische kunsten. Iconografie. Iconologie-:-Geneeskunde. Hygiëne. Farmacie --- history --- History --- -History --- -Anatomy, Artistic --- Science in Art --- Art, Medicine in --- Art, Science in --- Arts, Medicine in --- Arts, Science in --- Medicine in Arts --- Science in Arts --- in Art, Medicine --- in Art, Science --- in Arts, Medicine --- in Arts, Science --- 18th Cent. History (Medicine) --- 18th Cent. History of Medicine --- 18th Cent. Medicine --- Historical Events, 18th Century --- History of Medicine, 18th Cent. --- History, Eighteenth Century --- Medical History, 18th Cent. --- Medicine, 18th Cent. --- 18th Century History --- 18th Century Histories --- Cent. History, 18th (Medicine) --- Cent. Medicine, 18th --- Century Histories, 18th --- Century Histories, Eighteenth --- Century History, 18th --- Century History, Eighteenth --- Eighteenth Century Histories --- Eighteenth Century History --- Histories, 18th Century --- Histories, Eighteenth Century --- History, 18th Cent. (Medicine) --- Body Representation --- Body Schema --- Body Images --- Body Representations --- Body Schemas --- Images, Body --- Representation, Body --- Representations, Body --- Schema, Body --- Schemas, Body --- Body image --- Enlightenment --- 7.034 --- Eighteenth century --- Philosophy, Modern --- Rationalism --- Art --- Physical Appearance, Body --- Self Concept --- Imagery (Psychology) --- Mind and body --- Person schemas --- Personality --- Self-perception --- Human body --- Nude in art --- Human figure in art --- Proportion (Art) --- Art and science --- Medical illustration --- Human medicine --- anno 1700-1799 --- Medicine in the Arts. --- Enlightenment. --- Medicine --- Medicine in art --- Médecine --- Médecine dans l'art --- Image du corps --- Médecine et art --- Siècle des lumières --- Histoire --- 61 <09> History of medicine --- History of medicine --- Body Identity --- Identity, Body --- Medicine in the Arts

Visual analogy : consciousness as the art of connecting
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ISBN: 0262692678 026219421X 0585124000 0262284197 9780262284196 9780585124001 9780262194211 9780262692670 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press,

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A groundbreaking book exploring the discovery of sameness in otherness.Recuperating a topic once central to philosophy, theology, rhetoric, and aesthetics, this groundbreaking book explores the discovery of sameness in otherness. Analogy poses an intriguingly ancient and modern conundrum. How, in the face of cultural diversity, can a unique someone or something be perceived as like what it is not? This book is for anyone puzzled by why today, as Barbara Maria Stafford claims, "we possess no language for talking about resemblance, only an exaggerated awareness of difference." Well-designed images, Stafford argues, reveal the mind's intuitive leaps to connect known with unknown experience.The first of four wide-ranging chapters paints a challenging overview of several pressing contemporary issues. Cloning, legal controversies about social inequity, identity politics, electronic copying, and the mimicry of virtual reality expose the need for a nuanced theory of similitude. The second examines the historical tug-of-war between analogy and allegory, or disanalogy. Stafford provocatively suggests that, since the Romantic Era, we have been living in polarizingly allegorical times. The third roots this divisiveness within the momentous shift from a magical universe, modeled on sexual bonds, to an engineered world built of discrete automated units. Finally, recent developments in computational brain research notwithstanding, major phenomenological questions about memory, emotion, intelligence, and awareness beckon. In the fourth chapter, Stafford intervenes in the consciousness debates to propose a humanistic cognitive science with bridging/analogy at its artful core.


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A field guide to a new meta-field : bridging the humanities-neurosciences divide
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ISBN: 9780226770543 9780226770550 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chicago, Ill. University of Chicago Press

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Hoefnagel
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Christina Iglesias [1997]
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Year: 1997 Publisher: New York Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa

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The Blackwell companion to the Enlightenment
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ISBN: 0631154035 9780631154037 Year: 1991 Publisher: Oxford ; London ; Edinburgh... [et al.] : Basil Blackwell,

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