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Lens, laboratory, landscape : observing modern Spain
Title
Lens, laboratory, landscape : observing modern Spain / Claudia Schaefer.
ISBN
9781438452739 (hardcover : alk. paper)
143845273X (hardcover : alk. paper)
Publication
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]
Physical Description
xiii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 15, 2014
Series
SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian thought and culture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction
The creation of a new scientific persona : Santiago Ramón y Cajal and the rise of popular photography in Spain
The curtain rises on the magic theater of life : Cajal, master of light and color
Matter, time, and landscape : ways of seeing in Cajal, Ortega, and Benjamin
Science as a two-way street : contradictory traces of modernity in Dalí and Terán
Conclusion : a last look at observation.
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