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Author:   Janice Neri
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9780816667642

ISBN 10:   0816667640
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   27 October 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

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Contents Introduction: Specimen Logic I. Insects as Objects and Insects as Subjects: Establishing Conventions for Illustrating Insects 1. Joris Hoefnagel’s Imaginary Insects: Inventing an Artistic Identity 2. Cutting and Pasting Nature into Print: Ulisse Aldrovandi’s and Thomas Moffet’s Images of Insects 3. Suitable for Framing: Insects in Early Still Life Paintings II. New Worlds and New Selves 4. Between Observation and Image: Representations of Insects in Robert Hooke’s Micrographia 5. Stitches, Specimens, and Pictures: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Processing of the Natural World Conclusion: Discipline and Specimenize Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Janice Neri is associate professor of the history of art and visual culture at Boise State University.

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