Portraiture as a genre is receiving increased attention at the same time that public curiosity about science is reaching unprecedented levels. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 14 April - 17 September 2000, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, from 27 September - 10 December 2000, Defining Features brings portraiture and science together.
Ludmilla Jordanova's lucid text reflects on the nature of the relationship between art, science, medicine and technology by focusing on a selection of portraits that spans more than three centuries. Illustrated with likenesses of such notable personalities as Edward Jenner, Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Dorothy Hodgkin, and encompassing a variety of media from paintings and medals to bookmarks and key rings, Defining Features charts changing attitudes towards medical practice and scientific investigation, as well as exploring how notions of gender, heroism, popularization and celebrity have affected the public's understanding of how researchers do their work.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Beautifully produced . . . she succeeds in stimulating fresh discussion of scientific portraiture. After this, we will all look with keener eyes at those familiar portraits that adorn the walls of the Royal Society or hang in splendour, tier upon tier, in the Royal College of Physicians. * Lisa Jardine, <i>Nature</i> * The range of material presented here is impressive . . . this is an important study and obligatory reading for anyone looking at portraits of doctors and scientists. * <i>Medical History</i> * Jordanovas book . . . brings a wealth of little known scientific and medical practitioners into the published visual arena. This very re-contextualization makes the images read differently than they might in their disparate original surroundings and Jordanova makes a convincing case for a special collective identity to be thus imparted to them . . . she raises thought-provoking arguments. * <i>The Public Understanding of Science</i> *
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Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
Illustrationen
98 illustrations, 40 in colour
ISBN-13
978-1-86189-059-7 (9781861890597)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Ludmilla Jordanova is Professor of Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Her previous books include Nature Displayed: Gender, Science and Medicine 1760-1820 (1999).
