The Premise of Fidelity Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Afbeeldingen

Artikel vergelijken

  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780804777902
  • 15 augustus 2012
  • 272 pagina's
Alle productspecificaties

Samenvatting

The Premise of Fidelity: Science, Visuality, and Representing the Real in Nineteenth century Japan uncovers the social and epistemological roles of the term shashin within the scientific community before the term came to mean photography.



The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of the discourses and practices surrounding the nineteenth century transposition of "the real" in the decades before photography was introduced. This intellectual history is informed by a careful examination of a network of local scholars—from physicians to farmers to bureaucrats—known as Shōhyaku-sha. In their archival materials, these scholars used the term shashin (which would, years later, come to signify "photography" in Japanese) in a wide variety of medical, botanical, and pictorial practices. These scholars pursued questions of the relationship between what they observed and what they believed they knew, in the process investigating scientific ideas and practices by obsessively naming and classifying, and then rendering through highly accurate illustration, the objects of their study.

This book is an exploration of the process by which the Shōhyaku-sha shaped the concept of shashin. As such, it disrupts the dominant narratives of photography, art, and science in Japan, providing a prehistory of Japanese photography that requires the accepted history of the discipline to be rewritten.

Productspecificaties

Inhoud

Taal
en
Bindwijze
Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
15 augustus 2012
Aantal pagina's
272
Illustraties
Met illustraties

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur
Maki Fukuoka
Hoofduitgeverij
Stanford University Press

Overige kenmerken

Extra groot lettertype
Nee
Product breedte
159 mm
Product hoogte
25 mm
Product lengte
241 mm
Studieboek
Nee
Verpakking breedte
159 mm
Verpakking hoogte
25 mm
Verpakking lengte
241 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
526 g

EAN

EAN
9780804777902

Je vindt dit artikel in

Taal
Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?
Boek
Beschikbaarheid
Leverbaar
Studieboek of algemeen
Algemene boeken
Nog geen reviews

Kies gewenste uitvoering

Prijsinformatie en bestellen

De prijs van dit product is 50 euro en 95 cent.
1 - 2 weken
Verkoop door Paagman.nl
8,3
  • Bestellen en betalen via bol
  • Prijs inclusief verzendkosten, verstuurd door Paagman.nl
  • 30 dagen bedenktijd en gratis retourneren
  • Wettelijke garantie via Paagman.nl