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Author Schaefer, Claudia, 1949-

Title Lens, laboratory, landscape : observing modern Spain / Claudia Schaefer
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture
SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 1852-1934
SUBJECT Ramón y Cajal, Santiago, 1852-1934 fast
Subject Material culture -- Spain -- History -- 19th century
Material culture -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Art and society -- Spain -- History -- 19th century
Art and society -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Science -- Social aspects -- Spain -- History -- 19th century
Science -- Social aspects -- Spain -- History -- 20th century
Visual perception.
Observation (Scientific method)
visual perception.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Art and society
Intellectual life
Material culture
Observation (Scientific method)
Science -- Social aspects
Visual perception
SUBJECT Spain -- Intellectual life -- History -- 19th century
Spain -- Intellectual life -- History -- 20th century
Subject Spain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781438452746
1438452748