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A thought provoking study of the powerful impact of images in guiding astronomers' understanding of galaxies through time.
Traditionally experimentation has been understood as an activity performed within the laboratory, but in the twenty-first century this view is being challenged. Schwarz uses ecological and environmental case studies to show how scientific experiments can transcend the laboratory.
A surprising, sweeping, and deeply researched history of empathy—from late-nineteenth-century German aesthetics to mirror neurons†‹ Empathy: A History tells the fascinating and largely unknown story of the first appearance of “empathy” in 1908 and tracks its shifting meanings over the following century. Despite empathy’s ubiquity today, few realize that it began as a translation of Einfühlung or “in-feeling” in German psychological aesthetics that described how spectators projected their own feelings and movements into objects of art and nature. Remarkably, this early conception of empathy transformed into its opposite over the ensuing decades. Social scientists and clinical...
Borders Cuts Images. History and Theory. Editorial, edited by Linda Bertelli and Maria Luisa Catoni Maria Luisa Catoni, Cut as a device. An example from Classical Antiquity. Camilla Pietrabissa, Cutting down the interpretation of drawings. The case of Watteau. Maja-Lisa Müller, Framing representation. The hybrid zones of intarsia. Costanza Caraffa, The photographic cut and cutting practices in photographic archives. Sara Romani, From cuts to clues, hidden narratives within the details of Carl Durheim’s photographic portraits (1840-1860). Laura Di Fede, A look from outside. Foreign photographers in Palermo between the 19th and 20th centuries. Agnese Ghezzi, Framing the ‘delegated gaze’...
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