People
Picturing Science, Producing Art
Edited by Peter L. Galison & Caroline A. Jones
The boundaries between science and art will not hold. Foraging within this hotly contested zone, a collection of internationally renowned contributors analyze both scientific and aesthetic
representations, utilizing disciplinary perspectives that range from art history to sciology, history, philosophy of science, gender studies, cultural history, and the philosophy of mind.
Contents:
Caroline A. Jones and Peter Galison- Introduction
Styles
- Carlo Ginzburg - Style as Inclusion, Style as Exclusion
- Irene J. Winter - The Affective Properties of Styles: An Inquiry into Analytical Process and the Inscription of Meaning in Art History
- Amy Slaton - Style/Type/Standard: The Production of Technological Resemblance
The Body
- Arnold Davidson - Miracles of Bodily Transformation, or, How St. Francis Recieved the Stigmata
- Londa Schiebinger - Lost Knowledge, Bodies of Ignorance, and the Poverty of Taxonomy as Illustrated by the Curious Fate of Flos Pavonis, an Abortifacient
- Caroline A. Jones - The Sex of the Machine: Mechanomorphic Art, New Women, and Francis Picabia's Neurasthenic Cure
- Donna J. Haraway - Deanimations: Maps and Portraits of Life Itself
Seeing Wonder
- Krzysztof Pomian - Vision and Cognition
- Lorraine Daston - Nature by Design
- Katharine Park - Impressed Images:Reproducing Wonders
- David Freedberg - Iconography Between the History of Art and the History of Science: Art, Science, and the Case of the Urban Bee
- Joseph Leo Koerner - Hieronymus Bosch's World Picture
Objectivity/Subjectivity
- Peter Galison - Judgment Against Objectivity
- Jan Goldstein - Eclectic Subjectivity and the Impossibility of Female Beauty
- Joel Snyder - Visualization and Visibility
Cultures of Vision
- Svetlana Alpers - The Studio, the Laboratory, and the Vexations of Art
- Bruno Latour - How to Be Iconophilic in Art, Science, and Religion?
- Simon Schaffer - On Astronomical Drawing
- Jonathan Crary - Attention and Modernity in the Ninteenth Century
Contact
- Email: galison@fas.harvard.edu
- Phone: (617) 495-3544
Peter's Work
Classes:
- HS 97b: Tutorial - Sophomore Year
- HS 120: History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
- HS 121: History and Philosophy of Experimentation
- HS 152: Filming Science
- HS 222r: Research in the History and Philosophy of Physical Sciences
- HS 283: Technoprivacy
- HS 295r: Scientific and Legal Doubt: Inter-School, Faculty-Student Workshop
- General Examination (Ph.D.)
- Science A-41: The Einstein Revolution
