Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education

by admin on July 7, 2010

Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education

Review

“A scholarly and lucid analysis of the replacement of an oral-visual culture in favor of a text-centered one.” — Art Times

What has happened to the magic of learning? Playful illusions, spellbinding games, and lifelike automata were once integral to education. Artful Science reveals the exhilarating but paradoxical intertwining of enchantment with enlightenment in the early modern period. A cross-disciplinary guide to intellectual high and low life of the eighteenth century, Artful Science makes the case for the pedagogical opportunities inherent in an oral-visual culture. Barbara Stafford draws on an extraordinary range of historical sources and popular imagery, exploring from a new [Read More...]

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