Lens, Laboratory, Landscape
Observing Modern Spain
1st Edition
Published on 26. August 2014
254 pages
978-1-4384-5274-6 (ISBN)
Description
An interdisciplinary study of the rise of empirical observation in the Spanish arts and sciences as the principle vehicle for acquiring knowledge about the natural world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 19
Total Illustrations: 19
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-5274-6 (9781438452746)
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Claudia Schaefer is Rush Rhees Chair, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, and Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Rochester. She is the author of several books, including Bored to Distraction: Cinema of Excess in End-of-the-Century Mexico and Spain, also published by SUNY Press.
Content
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Creation of a New Scientific Persona: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Rise of Popular Photography in Spain
2. The Curtain Rises on the Magic Theater of Life: Cajal, Master of Light and Color
3. Matter, Time, and Landscape: Ways of Seeing in Cajal, Oretega, and Benjamin
4. Science as a Two-Way Street: Contradictory Traces of Modernity in Dalí and Terán
Conclusion: A Last Look at Observation
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Creation of a New Scientific Persona: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Rise of Popular Photography in Spain
2. The Curtain Rises on the Magic Theater of Life: Cajal, Master of Light and Color
3. Matter, Time, and Landscape: Ways of Seeing in Cajal, Oretega, and Benjamin
4. Science as a Two-Way Street: Contradictory Traces of Modernity in Dalí and Terán
Conclusion: A Last Look at Observation
Notes
Works Cited
Index
