The premise of fidelity : science, visuality, and representing the real in nineteenth-century Japan / Maki Fukuoka

Author:: Fukuoka, Maki, 1972-
Published:: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.
Physical Description:: xi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Contents:

The eye of the Shōhyaku-sha : between seeing and knowing -- Ways of conceptualizing the real : scripts, names, and Materia medica -- Modes of observation and the real : exhibition practices of the Shōhyaku-sha -- Picturing the real : questions of fidelity and processes of pictorial representation -- Shashin in the capital : the last stage of metamorphosis.

Subject(s):

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

ISBN:

9780804777902 (cloth : alk. paper)
080477790X (cloth : alk. paper)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [243]-253) and index.

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