<p>Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious Visions of Modernity, David Martin unpacks a collection of artifacts from the visual and historical archives of modernity, finding in each a slippage of scientific rationality--a repressed heterogeneity within the homogenized structures of post-Enlightenment knowledge. In doing so, he exposes modernity and its visual culture as haunted by precisely those things that rationality sought to expunge from the "enlightened" world: enchantment, magic, and wonderment. Martin traces the genealogies of what he considers three of the most distinct and historically immediate fields of modern visual culture: the collection, the body, and the mapping of spaces. In a narrative resembling the many-drawered curiosity cabinets of the Renaissance rather than the locked glass cases of the modern museum, he shows us a world renewed through the act of collecting the wondrous and aberrant objects of Creation; tortured and broken flesh rising from the dissecting tables of anatomy theaters to stalk the discourses of medical knowledge; and the spilling forth of a pictorializing geometry from the gilt frames of Renaissance panel paintings to venerate a panoptic god. Accounting for the visual disenchantment of modernity, Martin offers a curious vision of its reenchantment.</p>

Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred

Arts & Photography

Martin, David L.

History & Criticism

Mit Pr

Haunted by a secret knowledge and a repressed enchantment, Western rationality is not what it seems.Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the neat facade of a rational world. In Curious Visions of Modernity, David Martin unpacks a collection of artifacts from the visual and historical archives of modernity, finding in each a slippage of scientific rationality--a repressed heterogeneity within the homogenized structures of post-Enlightenment knowledge. In doing so, he exposes modernity and its visual culture as haunted by precisely those things that rationality sought to expunge from the "enlightened" world: enchantment, magic, and wonderment. Martin traces the genealogies of what he considers three of the most distinct and historically immediate fields of modern visual culture: the collection, the body, and the mapping of spaces. In a narrative resembling the many-drawered curiosity cabinets of the Renaissance rather than the locked glass cases of the modern museum, he shows us a world renewed through the act of collecting the wondrous and aberrant objects of Creation; tortured and broken flesh rising from the dissecting tables of anatomy theaters to stalk the discourses of medical knowledge; and the spilling forth of a pictorializing geometry from the gilt frames of Renaissance panel paintings to venerate a panoptic god. Accounting for the visual disenchantment of modernity, Martin offers a curious vision of its reenchantment.

Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred (Mit Press)

The MIT Press

<p>Thick 8vo hardcover with no dust jacket as issued. 932 pages with index and bibliography.</p>

Handbook for Creative Teaching

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Rod & Staff Pub

Running City Hall

Running city hall: Municipal administration in America

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

University of Alabama Press

In this thorough revision of the 1975 edition, the author has added material on the 1983 legislative districts, election law changes, black political participation, implementation of the unified judicial system, the 1982 city manager act, campaign finance, and the growth of political action committees, while maintaining the format that made the earlier study so useful. Retained are the careful definition of terms, the explanation of concepts, and the examples that were among the strengths of the first edition.

Alabama's State and Local Governments

History

Americas

Univ of Alabama Pr

Alabama's state and local governments

Running City Hall: Municipal Administration in America (Public Policy Research)

University Alabama Press

Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.

Internet Dating Etiquette: Advice for Single's, LGBTQ, Divorced, and Long-distant Relationships

Reference

Etiquette

Independently published

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