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In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. This book reveals that these natural philosophers shaped Restoration London's emergent artistic cultures by forging collaborations with court painters, penning art theory, and designing triumphs of baroque architecture.

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"No study in recent years on the arts in early modern Britain is as intelligent and inventive as Wicked Intelligence. Always attuned to the elusiveness of objects and their capacity to stimulate unexpected thoughts, Matthew C. Hunter follows Latourian hybrids as they circulate through Restoration experimental culture and brilliantly articulates the material intelligence at work in the Royal Society. Hunter's writing is compelling and witty, and this book exemplifies the very wicked intelligence that he traces through Restoration experimental philosophy." -Michael Gaudio, University of Minnesota"

Wicked Intelligence Visual Art and the Science

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 15/10/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226017297, 978-0226017297
      ISBN10: 022601729X
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      History of art The arts: general topics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. This book reveals that these natural philosophers shaped Restoration London's emergent artistic cultures by forging collaborations with court painters, penning art theory, and designing triumphs of baroque architecture.

      Trade Review
      "No study in recent years on the arts in early modern Britain is as intelligent and inventive as Wicked Intelligence. Always attuned to the elusiveness of objects and their capacity to stimulate unexpected thoughts, Matthew C. Hunter follows Latourian hybrids as they circulate through Restoration experimental culture and brilliantly articulates the material intelligence at work in the Royal Society. Hunter's writing is compelling and witty, and this book exemplifies the very wicked intelligence that he traces through Restoration experimental philosophy." -Michael Gaudio, University of Minnesota"

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