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Author:

Schaefer, Claudia, 1949-

Title:

Lens, laboratory, landscape : observing modern Spain / Claudia Schaefer.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xiii, 239 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Material culture--Spain--History--19th century.
Material culture--Spain--History--20th century.
Spain--History--History--19th century.
Spain--History--History--20th century.
Art and society--Spain--History--19th century.
Art and society--Spain--History--20th century.
Science--History--Spain--History--19th century.
Science--History--Spain--History--20th century.
Visual perception.
Observation (Scientific method)
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago,--1852-1934.
History.
Ramón y Cajal, Santiago,--1852-1934.
1800 - 1999
Art and society.
Intellectual life.
Material culture.
Observation (Scientific method)
Science--Social aspects.
Visual perception.
Spain.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- The creation of a new scientific persona : Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the rise of popular photography in Spain -- The curtain rises on the magic theater of life : Cajal, master of light and color -- Matter, time, and landscape : ways of seeing in Cajal, Ortega, and Benjamin -- Science as a two-way street : contradictory traces of modernity in Dalí and Terán -- Conclusion : a last look at observation.

Series:

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture

ISBN:

143845273X (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781438452739 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)871043029

LCCN:

2013036275

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)