Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Harvard Art Museums, Sept. 6-Dec. 10, 2011, and the Block Museum of Art, Jan. 17-Apr. 8, 2012.
Printmaking and knowledge -- Constellations and configurations -- Observing nature -- Observation / Lorraine Daston -- The rhinoceros -- Dürer's indexical fantasy: the rhinoceros and printmaking / Susan Dackerman -- Theater of nature -- Illustrated natural history / Claudia Swan -- Measurement -- Printed instruments -- Georg Hartmann and the development of printed instruments in Nuremberg / Suzanne Karr Schmidt -- Mapping -- Allegory -- Allegories of knowledge / Katharine Park.
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SERIES
Ladies Library Collection.
PUBLISHED
New Haven [Conn.] : Distributed by Yale University Press, c2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 442 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 32 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781891771583 (Harvard Art Museums : alk. paper)
1891771582 (Harvard Art Museums : alk. paper)
9780300171075 (Yale University Press (distributor) : alk. paper)
0300171072 (Yale University Press (distributor) : alk. paper)
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Dackerman, Susan.
Harvard Art Museums.
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art.
SUBJECTS
Prints, European -- 16th century -- Exhibitions.
Prints, Renaissance -- Exhibitions.
Art and science -- Exhibitions.
Knowledge, Sociology of -- Exhibitions.
Europe -- Intellectual life -- 16th century -- Exhibitions.