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1 online resource |
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SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture |
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SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.
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Introduction -- The creation of a new scientific persona : Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the rise of popular photography in Spain -- The curtain rises on the magic theater of life : Cajal, master of light and color -- Matter, time, and landscape : ways of seeing in Cajal, Ortega, and Benjamin -- Science as a two-way street : contradictory traces of modernity in Dalí and Terán -- Conclusion : a last look at observation |
| Summary |
Lens, Laboratory, Landscape focuses on competing views about the power of vision in Spain between the 1830s and the 1950s. The photographic lens, laboratory microscope, "retinal vision" of philosopher José Ortega y Gasset, and the topographical studies of Manuel de Terán are woven together in and around a European cultural milieu that gave observation primacy. For once, Spain--now bereft of its empire--was not on the outside of such debates. Whether in the laboratory, family home, darkroom, art gallery, or on the road, in Cuba or Zaragoza, Madrid or Massachusetts, Spanish artists and scientists were engaged with the social and economic power of observation at a time when the speed of modern life made observing a challenge. Claudia Schaefer brings the technologies of the eye--photograph, microscope, lens, tools for land surveying--to light as markers on the nation's touted path to modernity |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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English |
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Print version record |
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Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 1852-1934
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Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 1852-1934 |
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Material culture -- Spain -- History -- 19th century
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Material culture -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
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Art and society -- Spain -- History -- 19th century
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Art and society -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
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Science -- Social aspects -- Spain -- History -- 19th century
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Science -- Social aspects -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
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Visual perception.
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Observation (Scientific method)
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visual perception.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Art and society
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Intellectual life
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Material culture
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Observation (Scientific method)
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Science -- Social aspects
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Visual perception
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Spain -- Intellectual life -- History -- 19th century
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Spain -- Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century
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Spain
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Electronic books
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781438452746 |
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1438452748 |
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