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Painting with FireSir Joshua Reynolds, Photography, and the Temporally Evolvi…
Painting with Fire shows how experiments with chemicals known to change visibly over the course of time transformed British pictorial arts of the long eighteenth century—and how they can alter our conceptions of photography today. As early as the 1670s, experimental philosophers at the Royal Society of London had studied the visual effects of dynamic combustibles. By the 1770s, chemical volat…
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Wicked IntelligenceVisual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration Lo…
In late seventeenth-century London, the most provocative images were produced not by artists, but by scientists. Magnified fly-eyes drawn with the aid of microscopes, apparitions cast on laboratory walls by projection machines, cut-paper figures revealing the "exact proportions" of sea monsters—all were created by members of the Royal Society of London, the leading institutional platform of t…
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