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Victorian Science and Imagery
2021
Overview
The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when
scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding
boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and when 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. They remind us that science
and art are not tightly compartmentalized, separate influences.
Rather, these are fields that share forms, manifest as waves,
layers, lines, or geometries; that invest in the idea of the
evolution of form; and that generate surprisingly kindred
responses, such as pain, pleasure, empathy, and sympathy.
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Subject
ISBN
9780822946533, 082294653X, 0822987996, 9780822987994
