Science and the perception of nature : British landscape art in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries /
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| Author / Creator: | Klonk, Charlotte. |
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| Imprint: | New Haven : Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press, c1996. |
| Description: | vii, 198 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2723819 |
Table of Contents:
- I. Aesthetics, Philosophy and Physiology: The Road to Phenomenalism. London: The Body and Society. Scotland: The Culture of Sensibility. The Development of a Critique of Efficient Causality. The Rise of Phenomenalism. The Picturesque Controversy
- II. The Temple of Flora. Robert John Thornton. Thornton and Erasmus Darwin. 'All the Most Eminent English Artists'. The Plants and their Backgrounds. Ordered Continuity: The Arrangement of the Pictures. The Failure of A New Illustration
- III. From Picturesque Travel to Scientific Observation. The Wonders of Nature. The Picturesque Tour in Scotland. Naturalist Travellers in Scotland and the Geological Controversy. The Western Isles. The East Coast: Tantallon Castle and the Bass Rock. Artists and Geologists
- IV. Sketching from Nature: John and Cornelius Varley and their Circle. The New Role of Sketching. Cornelius Varley. The Scientific Outlook. The Proto-Photographic Gaze. Phenomenalism and the Retreat from Social Conflict. The End of Phenomenalism.