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How the picturing of insects inspired new ideas about art, science, nature, and commerce



Table of Contents

Contents

Introduction: Specimen Logic

I. Insects as Objects and Insects as Subjects: Establishing Conventions for Illustrating
Insects
1. Joris Hoefnagel’s Imaginary Insects: Inventing an Artistic Identity
2. Cutting and Pasting Nature into Print: Ulisse Aldrovandi’s and Thomas Moffet’s
Images of Insects
3. Suitable for Framing: Insects in Early Still Life Paintings

II. New Worlds and New Selves
4. Between Observation and Image: Representations of Insects in Robert Hooke’s
Micrographia
5. Stitches, Specimens, and Pictures: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Processing of the
Natural World

Conclusion: Discipline and Specimenize

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 27/10/2011
      ISBN13: 9780816667659, 978-0816667659
      ISBN10: 0816667659
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      How the picturing of insects inspired new ideas about art, science, nature, and commerce



      Table of Contents

      Contents

      Introduction: Specimen Logic

      I. Insects as Objects and Insects as Subjects: Establishing Conventions for Illustrating
      Insects
      1. Joris Hoefnagel’s Imaginary Insects: Inventing an Artistic Identity
      2. Cutting and Pasting Nature into Print: Ulisse Aldrovandi’s and Thomas Moffet’s
      Images of Insects
      3. Suitable for Framing: Insects in Early Still Life Paintings

      II. New Worlds and New Selves
      4. Between Observation and Image: Representations of Insects in Robert Hooke’s
      Micrographia
      5. Stitches, Specimens, and Pictures: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Processing of the
      Natural World

      Conclusion: Discipline and Specimenize

      Acknowledgments
      Notes
      Index

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