Description
Book SynopsisThe authors consider the relationship between knowledge and image, though multi-faceted, to be one of reciprocal dependence. But how do images carry and convey knowledge? The ambiguities of images means that interpretations do not necessarily follow the intention of the image producers. Through an array of different cases, the chapters critically reflect upon how images are mobilised and used in different knowledge practices, within certain knowledge traditions, in different historical periods. They question what we take for granted, what seems evident, what goes without saying. This approach spans across established categories such as «scientific imaging», «religious images» and «artworks», and considers how images may contribute meaning across such categories.
Table of ContentsContents:
Nora S. Vaage/Rasmus T. Slaattelid/Trine Krigsvoll Haagensen/Samantha L. Smith:
Images of Knowledge – Henning Laugerud:
The Optics of Understanding: Sight, sensing and discourses of knowledge in early modern Europe – Samantha L. Smith:
On Hands That Make Us See:
Tobias Healing His Father’s Blindness – Rasmus T. Slaattelid:
Beyond Representation? Making sense of nano images – Paula Muhr:
Framing the Hysterical Body - A comparative analysis of a historical and a contemporary approach to imaging functional leg paralysis – Nora S. Vaage:
Grow Your Own Views on Knowledge: Visions and framings of synthetic biology – Jørgen Bakke:
Et In Arcadia Ego: Poussin and early modern visual
historia – John Ødemark:
Framing Quetzalcoatl, Picturing Culture - Iconology and the image of the other in early modern mythography – Matthias Bruhn:
Epilogue.
