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- Condition
- Good
- Seller Notes
- “Used book in good condition. Shows typical wear. Quick shipping. Satisfaction guaranteed!”
- Book Title
- The Insect and the Image: Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Eur,
- Topic
- Plants & Animals
- Narrative Type
- Plants & Animals
- Genre
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- Intended Audience
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- ISBN
- 9780816667659
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN-10
0816667659
ISBN-13
9780816667659
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109075317
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Publication Name
Insect and the Image : Visualizing Nature in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700
Language
English
Subject
Aesthetics, European, History, History / Renaissance
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Philosophy, Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Weight
17.4 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2011-031739
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
704.9/43257094
Table Of Content
Contents Introduction: Specimen Logic I. Insects as Objects and Insects as Subjects: Establishing Conventions for Illustrating Insects 1. Joris Hoefnagel's Imaginary Insects: Inventing an Artistic Identity 2. Cutting and Pasting Nature into Print: Ulisse Aldrovandi's and Thomas Moffet's Images of Insects 3. Suitable for Framing: Insects in Early Still Life Paintings II. New Worlds and New Selves 4. Between Observation and Image: Representations of Insects in Robert Hooke's Micrographia 5. Stitches, Specimens, and Pictures: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Processing of the Natural World Conclusion: Discipline and Specimenize Acknowledgments Notes Index
Synopsis
Once considered marginal members of the animal world (at best) or vile and offensive creatures (at worst), insects saw a remarkable uptick in their status during the early Renaissance. This quickened interest was primarily manifested in visual images-in illuminated manuscripts, still life paintings, the decorative arts, embroidery, textile design, and cabinets of curiosity. In The Insect and the Image , Janice Neri explores the ways in which such imagery defined the insect as a proper subject of study for Europeans of the early modern period. It was not until the sixteenth century that insects began to appear as the sole focus of paintings and drawings-as isolated objects, or specimens, against a blank background. The artists and other image makers Neri discusses deployed this "specimen logic" and so associated themselves with a mode of picturing in which the ability to create a highly detailed image was a sign of artistic talent and a keenly observant eye. The Insect and the Image shows how specimen logic both reflected and advanced a particular understanding of the natural world-an understanding that, in turn, supported the commodification of nature that was central to global trade and commerce during the early modern era. Revealing how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists and image makers shaped ideas of the natural world, Neri's work enhances our knowledge of the convergence of art, science, and commerce today., Once considered marginal members of the animal world (at best) or vile and offensive creatures (at worst), insects saw a remarkable uptick in their status during the early Renaissance. This quickened interest was primarily manifested in visual images--in illuminated manuscripts, still life paintings, the decorative arts, embroidery, textile design, and cabinets of curiosity. In The Insect and the Image , Janice Neri explores the ways in which such imagery defined the insect as a proper subject of study for Europeans of the early modern period. It was not until the sixteenth century that insects began to appear as the sole focus of paintings and drawings--as isolated objects, or specimens, against a blank background. The artists and other image makers Neri discusses deployed this "specimen logic" and so associated themselves with a mode of picturing in which the ability to create a highly detailed image was a sign of artistic talent and a keenly observant eye. The Insect and the Image shows how specimen logic both reflected and advanced a particular understanding of the natural world--an understanding that, in turn, supported the commodification of nature that was central to global trade and commerce during the early modern era. Revealing how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists and image makers shaped ideas of the natural world, Neri's work enhances our knowledge of the convergence of art, science, and commerce today.
LC Classification Number
N7668.I56N47 2011
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