Wicked Intelligence Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London【電子書籍】[ Matthew C. Hunter ]

＜p＞In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes drawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory walls by projection machines, cut-paper figures revealing the “exact proportions” of sea monstersーall were created by members of the Royal Society of London, the leading institutional platform of the early Scientific Revolution. ＜em＞Wicked Intelligence＜/em＞ reveals that these natural philosophers shaped Restoration London’s emergent artistic cultures by forging collaborations with court painters, penning art theory, and designing triumphs of baroque architecture such as St Paul’s Cathedral.＜/p＞ ＜p＞Matthew C. Hunter brings to life this archive of experimental-philosophical visualization and the deft cunning that was required to manage such difficult research. Offering an innovative approach to the scientific image-making of the time, he demonstrates how the Restoration project of synthesiz．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る