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Defining features : scientific and medical portraits, 1660-2000 / Ludmilla Jordanova.
- Title
- Defining features : scientific and medical portraits, 1660-2000 / Ludmilla Jordanova.
- Author
- Jordanova, L. J.
- Publication
- London : Reaktion in association with the National Portrait Gallery, 2000.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
- Description
- 191 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Portraiture as a genre is receiving increased attention at the same time as public curiosity about science is reaching unprecedented levels. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Defining Features ... reflects on the nature of the relationships between art, science, medicine and technology by focusing on a selection of portraits that spans more than three centuries."--Page 4 of cover.
- Alternative Title
- Scientific and medical portraits, 1660-2000
- Subject
- Science in art > Exhibitions
- Medicine in art > Exhibitions
- Technology in art > Exhibitions
- Scientists > Portraits > Exhibitions
- Physicians > Portraits > Exhibitions
- Technologists > Portraits > Exhibitions
- Physicians > Portraits
- Scientists > Portraits
- Science in art
- Medicine in art
- Technology in art
- Technologists > Portraits
- Medicine in the Arts
- Portraits as Topic
- Genre/Form
- Portraits
- Portraits.
- Note
- "Published to accompany an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-181) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword (starting p. 7) / Charles Saumarez Smith -- Preface and Acknowledgements (starting p. 9) -- I Introducing Portraiture (starting p. 11) -- II Boundaries (starting p. 49) -- III Gender and Scientific Heroism (starting p. 85) -- IV Portraiture in Practice (starting p. 129) -- References (starting p. 167) -- Select Bibliography (starting p. 179) -- List of Illustrations (starting p. 183) -- Index (starting p. 189)
- ISBN
- 1861890591
- OCLC
- 46907506
- SCSB-11983035
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library