Defining Features: Scientific and Medical Portraits, 1660-2000 - Softcover

Jordanova, Ludmilla

9781861890597: Defining Features: Scientific and Medical Portraits, 1660-2000

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ISBN 10: 1861890591 ISBN 13: 9781861890597

Publisher: Reaktion Books, 2000

Portraiture as a genre is receiving increased attention at the same time that public curiosity about science is reaching unprecedented levels. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, from 14 April – 17 September 2000, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, from 27 September – 10 December 2000, Defining Features brings portraiture and science together.

Ludmilla Jordanova's lucid text reflects on the nature of the relationship between art, science, medicine and technology by focusing on a selection of portraits that spans more than three centuries. Illustrated with likenesses of such notable personalities as Edward Jenner, Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Dorothy Hodgkin, and encompassing a variety of media from paintings and medals to bookmarks and key rings, Defining Features charts changing attitudes towards medical practice and scientific investigation, as well as exploring how notions of gender, heroism, popularization and celebrity have affected the public's understanding of how researchers do their work.

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Ludmilla Jordanova a is Professor of Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia, Norwich. Her previous books include Nature Displayed: Gender, Science and Medicine 1760–1820 (1999).

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"This is an important study and obligatory reading for anyone looking at portraits of doctors and scientists." (Medical History)

"This beautifully produced book . . . succeeds in stimulating a fresh discussion of scientific portraiture. After this, we will all look with keener eyes at those familiar portraits that adorn the walls of the Royal Society or hang in splendour, tier upon tier, in the Royal College of Physicians." (Nature)

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PublisherReaktion Books
Publication date2000
ISBN 10 1861890591
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