The premise of fidelity [[electronic resource] ] : science, visuality, and representing the real in nineteenth-century Japan / / Maki Fukuoka
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| Autore: |
Fukuoka Maki <1972->
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| Titolo: |
The premise of fidelity [[electronic resource] ] : science, visuality, and representing the real in nineteenth-century Japan / / Maki Fukuoka
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| Pubblicazione: | Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (301 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 709.52 |
| Soggetto topico: | Art and science - Japan - History - 19th century |
| Botanical illustration - Japan - History - 19th century | |
| Plant prints - Japan - History - 19th century | |
| Photography - Japan - History - 19th century | |
| Realism in art - Japan - History - 19th century | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-253) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Names; Introduction; 1. The Eye of the Shōhyaku-sha: Between Seeing and Knowing; 2. Ways of Conceptualizing the Real: Scripts, Names, and Materia Medica; 3. Modes of Observation and the Real: Exhibition Practices of the Shōhyaku-sha; 4. Picturing the Real: Questions of Fidelity and Processes of Pictorial Representation; 5. Shashin in the Capital: The Last Stage of Metamorphosis; Appendix: Takahashi Yuichi, "Yōgakyoku tekigen" (1865); Notes; Glossary; Works Cited; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The Premise of Fidelity puts forward a new history of Japanese visuality through an examination of the discourses and practices surrounding the nineteenth century transposition of ""the real"" in the decades before photography was introduced. This intellectual history is informed by a careful examination of a network of local scholars-from physicians to farmers to bureaucrats-known as Shohyaku-sha. In their archival materials, these scholars used the term shashin (which would, years later, come to signify ""photography"" in Japanese) in a wide variety of medical, botanical, |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The premise of fidelity |
| ISBN: | 0-8047-8462-0 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910462182703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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