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

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 272 pages) : illustrations Contents Cover; Copyright; Title Page; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Note on Names; Introduction; 1. The Eye of the Shōhyaku-sha: Between Seeing and Knowing; 2. Ways of Conceptualizing the Real: Scripts, Names, and Materia Medica; 3. Modes of Observation and the Real: Exhibition Practices of the Shōhyaku-sha; Color Plates; 4. Picturing the Real: Questions of Fidelity and Processes of Pictorial Representation; 5. Shashin in the Capital: The Last Stage of Metamorphosis; Appendix: Takahashi Yuichi, "Yōgakyoku tekigen" (1865); Notes; Glossary; Works Cited; Index Summary This work provides an exploration of the process by which the Shohyaku-sha shaped the concept of shashin. As such, it disrupts the dominant narratives of photography, art, and science in Japan, providing a prehistory of Japanese photography that requires the accepted history of the discipline to be rewritten Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-253) and index Subject 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 -- History -- 19th century Medicine in the Arts Photography -- history History, 19th Century Materia Medica -- history Plants, Medicinal Printing -- history ART -- History -- General. Art and science Botanical illustration Photography Plant prints Realism in art SUBJECT Japan https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007564 Subject Japan Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012007601 ISBN 9780804784627 0804784620

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