Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Visual Culture
Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth Century Visual Culture
English | 2021 | ISBN: 082294653X | 374 Pages | PDF (True) | 18 MB
English | 2021 | ISBN: 082294653X | 374 Pages | PDF (True) | 18 MB
The nineteenth century was a period of science and imagery: when scientific theories and discoveries challenged longstanding boundaries between animal, plant, and human, and when art and visual culture produced new notions about the place of the human in the natural world. Just as scientists relied on graphic representation to conceptualize their ideas, artists moved seamlessly between scientific debate and creative expression to support or contradict popular scientific theories—such as Darwin’s theory of evolution and sexual selection—deliberately drawing on concepts in ways that allowed them to refute popular claims or disrupt conventional knowledges.