Schaefer Lens, Laboratory, Landscape

Observing Modern Spain
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5274-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

An interdisciplinary study of the rise of empirical observation in the Spanish arts and sciences as the principle vehicle for acquiring knowledge about the natural world.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schaefer, Claudia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Creation of a New Scientific Persona: Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the Rise of Popular Photography in Spain

2. The Curtain Rises on the Magic Theater of Life: Cajal, Master of Light and Color

3. Matter, Time, and Landscape: Ways of Seeing in Cajal, Oretega, and Benjamin

4. Science as a Two-Way Street: Contradictory Traces of Modernity in Dalí and Terán

Conclusion: A Last Look at Observation

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Claudia Schaefer is Rush Rhees Chair, Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, and Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Rochester. She is the author of several books, including Bored to Distraction: Cinema of Excess in End-of-the-Century Mexico and Spain, also published by SUNY Press.