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Author Berger, Susanna, 1984- author.

Title The art of philosophy : visual thinking in Europe from the late Renaissance to the early Enlightenment / Susanna Berger
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]

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Contents Apin's cabinet of printed curiosities -- Thinking through plural images of logic -- The visible order of student lecture notebooks -- Visual thinking in logic notebooks and Alba amicorum -- The generation of art as the generation of philosophy
Summary Delving into the intersections between artistic images and philosophical knowledge in Europe from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, The Art of Philosophy shows that the making and study of visual art functioned as important methods of philosophical thinking and instruction. From frontispieces of books to monumental prints created by philosophers in collaboration with renowned artists, Susanna Berger examines visual representations of philosophy and overturns prevailing assumptions about the limited function of the visual in European intellectual history. Rather than merely illustrating already existing philosophical concepts, visual images generated new knowledge for both Aristotelian thinkers and anti-Aristotelians, such as Descartes and Hobbes. Printmaking and drawing played a decisive role in discoveries that led to a move away from the authority of Aristotle in the seventeenth century. Berger interprets visual art from printed books, student lecture notebooks, alba amicorum (friendship albums), broadsides, and paintings, and examines the work of such artists as Pietro Testa, Leonard Gaultier, Abraham Bosse, Durer, and Rembrandt. In particular, she focuses on the rise and decline of the "plural image," a genre that was popular among early modern philosophers. Plural images brought multiple images together on the same page, often in order to visualize systems of logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, or moral philosophy
Analysis Aristotle
Bosse
Drer
Girard Desargues
Justus Winkelmann
Leviathan
Logicae universae typus
Paris philosophy notebooks
Siegmund Jacob Apin
Typus
Willibald Pirckheimer
alba amicorum
art
dissertation
drawing
early modern period
engravings
escriptio
friendship albums
frontispiece
lecture notebooks
logic
manuscript
manuscripts
mental representation
metaphysics
mnemonic printed images
moral philosophy
natural philosophy
philosophical images
philosophical knowledge
philosophical thought
philosophical understanding
plural images
visual art
visual commentary
visual images
visual representation
visualization
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Art and philosophy -- Europe
Aesthetics, Modern -- 17th century.
Aesthetics, Modern -- 18th century.
Visual communication in art -- Europe -- History
Art, Renaissance.
Art, Modern -- 18th century.
Visual communication in art -- History
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
Aesthetics, Modern
Art and philosophy
Art, Modern
Art, Renaissance
Visual communication in art
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781400885121
1400885124