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Author : Nigel Sadler
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445661144
A fascinating collection of postcards from the early twentieth century.
Author : Brian Burrell
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,56 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Anatomical museums
ISBN : 9780767906777
What makes one man a genius and another a criminal? Is there a physical explanation for these differences? For hundreds of years, scientists have been fascinated by this question. In Postcards from the Brain Museum, Brian Burrell relates the story of the first scientific attempts to locate the sources of both genius and depravity in the physical anatomy of the human brain. It describes the men who studied and collected special brains, the men who gave them up, and the sometimes cruel fate of the brains themselves. The fascination with elite brains was an aspect of the scientific mania for measurement that gripped the Western world in the mid-nineteenth century, along with a passionate interest in the biological basis of genius or exceptional talent. Many leading intellectuals and artists willed their brains to science, and the brains of notorious criminals were also collected by eager anatomists ghoulishly waiting in the execution chamber with a bag full of sharp metal tools. Focusing on the posthumous sagas of brains belonging to Byron, Whitman, Lenin, Einstein, the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, and many others, Burrell describes how the brains of famous men were first collected--by means both fair and foul--and then weighed, measured, dissected, and compared; exhaustive studies analyzed their fissural complexity and cell or neuron size. In various cities in Europe, Russia, and the United States, brain collections were painstakingly assembled and studied. A veritable who's who of literary, artistic, musical, scientific, and political achievement waited in Formalin-filled jars for their secrets to be unlocked. The men who built the brain collections werecolorful and eccentric figures like Rudolph Wagner, whose study of the brain of Carl Friedrich Gauss led to one of the great scientific debates of the nineteenth century. In America, the Fowler brothers brought phrenology to the United States and made a convert of Walt Whitman, whose brain was donated to science and disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Eventually, this project was abandoned, and with the discovery of new technologies the study of the brain has moved on to a higher plane. But the collections themselves still exist, and today, in Paris, London, Stockholm, Philadelphia, Moscow, and even Tokyo, the brains of nineteenth century geniuses sit idle, gathering dust in their jars. Brian Burrell has visited these collections and looked into the original intentions and purposes of their creators. In the process, he unearths a forgotten byway in the history of science--a tale of colorful eccentrics bent on laying bare the secrets of the human mind.
Author : Anne Nishimura Morse
Publisher : Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from March 10 to June 6, 2004"--T.p. verso.
Author : Art Institute of Chicago
Publisher : Hudson Hills Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Miniature furniture
ISBN : 9780865592124
Generations of visitors to the Art Institute of Chicago have been entranced by the Thorne Rooms. These sixty-eight miniature rooms, designed between 1934 and 1940, chronicle both European and American interiors ranging from 16th to the early 20th century. This publication offers stunning full-color photographs of each room.
Author : Natural History Museum
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,88 MB
Release : 2018-07
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780565094362
Author : Lynda Klich
Publisher : MFA Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,79 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780878467815
Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Oct. 24, 2012-Apr. 14, 2013.
Author : Jeff Rosenheim
Publisher :
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Sketchbook volume one of a two volume set documents the best of the optical illusions discovered and sketched in our CAD system. It is also attempts to define common visual attributes and categorize optical illusions by those features. The goal is give the reader new tools to help them better identify and classify optical illusions. These illusions are used by engineers, academics and artists to graphically depict their ideas and the world around them on flat surfaces.
Author : Nigel Sadler
Publisher : Postcard Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445639673
A fascinating selection of postcards encapsulates the war to end all wars.
Author : Lynda Klich
Publisher : MFA Publications
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,61 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780878467877
In the decades around 1900, postcards were Twitter, email, Flickr and Facebook, all wrapped into one. A postcard craze swept the world, and billions of cards were bought, mailed and pasted into albums. Many famous artists turned to the new medium, but one of the great pleasures and enigmas of postcards is how some of the most beautiful and interesting examples were made by artists whose names we barely know. Drawing on the riches of the Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Collection (probably the finest and most comprehensive collection of its type), this gorgeous book traces the historical and cultural themes--enthralling, exciting, and sometimes disturbing--of the modern age. The first general publication on the postcard as an artistic medium since the mid-1970s, "The Postcard Age" is organized thematically, with chapters devoted to urban life, the changing role of women, sports, celebrity, new technologies, the stylish collectors' cards of Art Nouveau and World War I. The result is at once a vivid picture of the concerns and pastimes of the turn of the century and a sampler from the Lauder's vast archives.