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Title Renaissance futurities : science, art, invention / edited by Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Contents Introduction : the future is now : reflections on art, science, futurity / Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez -- Moon shot: from renaissance imagination to modern reality / Mari-Tere Álvarez -- Machines in the garden / Jessica Riskin -- Inventing interfaces : Camillo's memory theater and the renaissance of human-computer interaction / Peter Matussek -- Futurities, empire, and censorship: Cervantes in conversation with Ovid and Orwell / Frederick A. de Armas -- Anticipating the future : Leonardo's unpublished anatomical and mathematical observations / Morteza Gharib, Francis C. Wells, with Mari-Tere Álvarez -- Medicine as a hunt : searching for the secrets of the new world / William Eamon -- The half-life of blue / Charlene Villaseñor Black -- "Ingenuity' and artists' ways of knowing / Claire Farago
Summary "Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), prolific artist and inventor, and other polymaths such as philosopher Giulio "Delminio" Camillo (1480-1544), physician and naturalist Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514-1587), and writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616). This concern with futurity is inspired by the Renaissance itself, a period defined by visions of the future, as well as by recent theorizing of temporality in Renaissance and Queer Studies. This transdisciplinary volume is at the cutting edge of the humanities, medical humanities, scientific discovery, and avant-garde artistic expression"--Provided by publisher
Analysis artist
artistic rebirth
avant garde artistic expression
delminio
european imperialism
francisco hernandez de toledo
futurity
giulio camillo
global early modern world
humanities
intersections
inventor
leonardo da vinci
medical humanities
miguel de cervantes
naturalist
new science
philosopher
physician
polymaths
queer studies
renaissance
scientific discovery
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-231) and index
Notes Description based on online resource, viewed October 7, 2020
Subject Art and science -- Forecasting
Art and science -- Europe -- 16th century
Art and science -- Europe -- 15th century
Future in art.
ART / History / Renaissance.
Future in art
Art and science
Europe
Genre/Form essays.
Essays
Essays.
Essais.
Form Electronic book
Author Villaseñor Black, Charlene, 1962- editor
Alvarez, Mari-Tere, editor.
LC no. 2019981548
ISBN 9780520969513
0520969510