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Auteur(s) : Gillespie, Sarah Kate
Titre(s) : The early American daguerreotype [Texte imprimé] : cross-currents in art and technology / Sarah Kate Gillespie
Publication : Cambridge : The MIT Press, 2016
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-213 p.) : ill. en coul. ; 24 cm
Collection : Lemelson center studies in invention and innovation
Lien à la collection : Lemelson center studies in invention and innovation
Comprend : Introduction ; "Rembrandt perfected": the art, science, and technology of Samuel
F. B. Morse ; "All nature shall be henceforth its own painter": the intersection
of art and daguerreotyping ; "We will not bore our readers with any more chemistry":
science and the daguerreotype ; "The American process": the daguerreotype and technology
; Conclusion.
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 203-210. Index
"Gillespie maps the evolution of the daguerreotype, as medium and as profession, from
its introduction to the ascendancy of the "American process," tracing its relationship
to other fields and the professionalization of those fields. She does so by recounting
the activities of a series of American daguerreotypists, including fine artists, scientists,
and mechanical tinkerers. She describes, for example, experiments undertaken by Samuel
F. B. Morse as he made the transition from artist to inventor; how artists made use
of the daguerreotype, both borrowing conventions from fine art and establishing new
ones for a new medium; the use of the daguerreotype in various sciences, particularly
astronomy; and technological innovators who drew on their work in the mechanical arts.
"--Publisher's website
Sujet(s) : Daguerréotype -- États-Unis -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780262034104. - ISBN 0262034107 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44518733x
Notice n° :
FRBNF44518733
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