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Curious Visions Of Modernity David L Martin

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Curious Visions Of Modernity David L Martin
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Publisher: MIT Press
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 3.94 MB
Author: David L Martin
ISBN: 9780262298100, 0262298104
Language: English
Year: 2011

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Curious Visions Of Modernity David L Martin by David L Martin 9780262298100, 0262298104 instant download after payment.

Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious Visions of Modernity, David Martin unpacks a collection of artifacts from the visual and historical archives of modernity, finding in each a slippage of scientific rationality—a repressed heterogeneity within the homogenized structures of post-Enlightenment knowledge. In doing so, he exposes modernity and its visual culture as haunted by precisely those things that rationality sought to expunge from the "enlightened" world: enchantment, magic, and wonderment. Martin traces the genealogies of what he considers three of the most distinct and historically immediate fields of modern visual culture: the collection, the body, and the mapping of spaces. In a narrative resembling the...
ISBN : 9780262298100

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