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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815143503321

Autore

Schaefer Claudia <1949->

Titolo

Lens, laboratory, landscape : observing modern Spain / / Claudia Schaefer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, New York : , : SUNY Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-4384-5274-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture

Disciplina

306.0946/09034

Soggetti

Material culture - Spain - History - 19th century

Material culture - Spain - History - 20th century

Spain Intellectual life History 19th century

Spain Intellectual life History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter One: The Creation of a New Scientific Persona: Santiago Raman y Cajal and the Rise of Popular Photography in Spain""; ""Chapter Two: The Curtain Rises on the Magic Theater of Life: Cajal, Master of Light and Color""; ""Chapter Three: Matter, Time, and Landscape: Ways of Seeing in Cajal, Ortega, and Benjamin""; ""Chapter Four: Science as a Two-Way Street: Contradictory Traces of Modernity in Dal and Teran""; ""Conclusion: A Last Look at Observation""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index""