The natural history of man and the politics of medical portraiture in Manchester

• Autores: Aris Sarafianos
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 88, Nº 1, 2006, págs. 102-118
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Visual practices play a role in the making of scientific careers and theories that is not always straightforward. Several portraits of the Manchester surgeon Charles White, along with scientific illustrations associated with him, interfered with Sir Joshua Reynolds’s portrait of John Hunter in ways that reveal the messy diversity of practices, uses, and contexts of images during the Enlightenment. The increased mobility of Enlightenment visual culture straddled the fields of art and science, reflected their social economies, and enabled images to maintain a meaningful role simultaneously in systems of knowing, projects of professional empowerment, and forms of political commentary.