Defining Features: Scientific and Medical Portraits, 1660-2000 - Couverture souple

Jordanova, Ludmilla

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1861890591 ISBN 13 : 9781861890597

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2000

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1861890591
• ISBN 13: 9781861890597
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible