Early Modern Print Media and the Art of Observation
Training the Literate Eye
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 4 April 2024
- ISBN 9781009444521
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages360 pages
- Size 261x182x23 mm
- Weight 930 g
- Language English 719
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Short description:
Illustrations in the now little-known genres of cosmographies and physiognomies coached early modern readers to make visual decisions.
MoreLong description:
Early modern printmakers trained observers to scan the heavens above as well as faces in their midst. Peter Apian printed the&&&160;Cosmographicus Liber&&&160;(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 D&&&252;rer nor Leonardo escaped the tenacious grasp of such widely circulating manuals called&&&160;practica.&&&160;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.
MoreTable of Contents:
1. 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.
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