Images of knowledge : the epistemic lives of pictures and visualisations / Nora S. Vaage, Rasmus T. Slaattelid, Trine Krigsvoll Haagensen, Samantha L. Smith (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vaage, Nora Sørensen, editor.

Slaattelid, Rasmus T., 1964- editor.

Haagensen, Trine Krigsvoll, editor.

Smith, Samantha L., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Knowledge, Theory of.

Visualization.

Imagery (Psychology).

Physical Description:

237 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt am Main : New York : PL, Academic Research, [2016]

Summary:

The authors consider the relationship between knowledge and image, though multi-faceted, to be one of reciprocal dependence. But how do images carry and convey knowledge? The ambiguities of images means that interpretations do not necessarily follow the intention of the image producers. Through an array of different cases, the chapters critically reflect upon how images are mobilised and used in different knowledge practices, within certain knowledge traditions, in different historical periods. They question what we take for granted, what seems evident, what goes without saying. This approach spans across established categories such as "scientific imaging", "religious images" and "artworks", and considers how images may contribute meaning across such categories. Book jacket.

Contents:

Images of Knowledge / Nora S. Vaage Vaage, Nora S., Rasmus T. Slaattelid Slaattelid, Rasmus T., Trine Krigsvoll Haagensen Haagensen, Trine Krigsvoll, Samantha L. Smith Smith, Samantha L. 9

The Optics of Understanding: Sight, sensing and discourses of knowledge in early modern Europe / Henning Laugerud Laugerud, Henning 21

On Hands That Make Us See: Tobias Healing His Father's Blindness / Samantha L. Smith Smith, Samantha L. 51

Beyond Representation? Making sense of nano images / Rasmus T. Slaattelid Slaattelid, Rasmus T. 79

Framing the Hysterical Body - A comparative analysis of a historical and a contemporary approach to imaging functional leg paralysis / Paula Muhr Muhr, Paula 97

Grow Your Own Views on Knowledge: Visions and framings of synthetic biology / Nora S. Vaage Vaage, Nora S. 127

Et In Arcadia Ego: Poussin and early modern visual historyía / Jørgen Bakke Bakke, Jørgen 161

Framing Quetzalcoatl, Picturing Culture - Iconology and the image of the other in early modern mythography / John Ødemark Ødemark, John 191

Epilogue / Matthias Bruhn Bruhn, Matthias 221.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783631666647

3631666640

OCLC:

933446625

Publisher Number:

99967855623