Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation : Training the Literate Eye by Stephanie A. Leitch (2024, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-101009444522
ISBN-139781009444521
eBay Product ID (ePID)19065343120
Product Key Features
Book TitleEarly Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation : Training the Literate Eye
Number of Pages360 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Prints
Publication Year2024
IllustratorYes
GenreArt
AuthorStephanie A. Leitch
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Length10.3 in
Item Width7.2 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2023-041809
Dewey Edition23/eng/20240126
Dewey Decimal769.9409/031
Table Of Content1. Introduction: learning to look with books for the literate eye; Part I. Coaching the Eyewitness: 2. Don't forget your Apian: a DIY guide to the cosmos; 3. Facial profiling: physiognomy and the art of inspection; Part II. Collecting and Cognitive Challenges: 4. Visualized data and searchable science: The Liber Quodlibetarius (c. 1524); 5. Vexed viewing: anamorphosis and the visual argumentation of labored looking; 6. Conclusion: Observational thinking; Bibliography.
SynopsisEarly modern printmakers trained observers to scan the heavens above as well as faces in their midst. Peter Apian printed the Cosmographicus Liber (1524) to teach lay astronomers their place in the cosmos, while also printing practical manuals that translated principles of spherical astronomy into useful data for weather watchers, farmers, and astrologers. Physiognomy, a genre related to cosmography, taught observers how to scrutinize profiles in order to sum up peoples' characters. Neither Albrecht Dürer nor Leonardo escaped the tenacious grasp of such widely circulating manuals called practica. Few have heard of these genres today, but the kinship of their pictorial programs suggests that printers shaped these texts for readers who privileged knowledge retrieval. Cultivated by images to become visual learners, these readers were then taught to hone their skills as observers. This book unpacks these and other visual strategies that aimed to develop both the literate eye of the reader and the sovereignty of images in the early modern world., Illustrations in the now little-known genres of cosmographies and physiognomies coached early modern readers to make visual decisions. This book unpacks the visual strategies that aimed to develop both the literate eye of the reader and the sovereignty of images in the early modern world.
LC Classification NumberNE625.L45 2024
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