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Knowing Nature - Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,608
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Knowing Nature - Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 (Hardcover): Amy R.W. Meyers

Knowing Nature - Art and Science in Philadelphia, 1740-1840 (Hardcover)

Amy R.W. Meyers; Amy R.W. Meyers, Lisa L Ford

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Philadelphia developed the most active scientific community in early America, fostering an influential group of naturalist-artists, including William Bartram, Charles Willson Peale, Alexander Wilson, and John James Audubon, whose work has been addressed by many monographic studies. However, as the groundbreaking essays in "Knowing Nature" demonstrate, the examination of nature stimulated not only forms of artistic production traditionally associated with scientific practice of the day, but processes of making not ordinarily linked to science. The often surprisingly intimate connections between and among these creative activities and the objects they engendered are explored through the essays in this book, challenging the hierarchy that is generally assumed to have been at play in the study of nature, from the natural sciences through the fine and decorative arts, and, ultimately, popular and material culture. Indeed, the many ways in which the means of knowing nature were reversed--in which artistic and artisanal culture informed scientific interpretations of the natural world--forms a central theme of this pioneering publication.

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Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2012
First published: 2012
Editors: Amy R.W. Meyers
Authors: Amy R.W. Meyers • Lisa L Ford
Dimensions: 305 x 241 x 45mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11104-0
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1600 to 1800 > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > 1800 to 1900 > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes > General
LSN: 0-300-11104-5
Barcode: 9780300111040

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