Lens, laboratory, landscape
Subtitle: observing modern Spain
By: Claudia Schaefer
Series: SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press; SUNY Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781438452739
Subjects: Material culture; History; Intellectual life; Art and society; Science; Visual perception; Observation (Scientific method)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The creation of a new scientific persona : Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the rise of popular photography in Spain; title: The curtain rises on the magic theater of life : Cajal, master of light and color; title: Matter, time, and landscape : ways of seeing in Cajal, Ortega, and Benjamin; title: Science as a two-way street : contradictory traces of modernity in Dalí and Terán; title: Conclusion : a last look at observation.