Is There Really Something Which Might Be Called a 'Self-Demonstrating Picture' : Even Within Scientific Imagery? Some Observations on a Double Illusion of Communication
(2012) The Image in Science: Infrequently Asked Questions. Responses of the humanities to visualism in science. Vol. 5(No. 1-2, 2010/11). p.71-87- Abstract
- I will propose some ideas about such pictures claiming to be self-demonstrating or selfillustrating, mostly using some classical anatomy illustrations. Based on these you may say that the anatomy seems to create a remarkable, realistic pictorial code, which casts together in one single, selfdemonstrating shape, an object of knowledge with the properties of the natural object itself. This is the paradox of the self-demonstrating picture’s double illusion of communication: on the one hand it seems to be a picture of the natural appearance of the object, but on the other it is, in fact, simultaneously a depiction of a cognitive concept, a visual name of this object. It is a conditional and man-made classification, which is embodied into the... (More)
- I will propose some ideas about such pictures claiming to be self-demonstrating or selfillustrating, mostly using some classical anatomy illustrations. Based on these you may say that the anatomy seems to create a remarkable, realistic pictorial code, which casts together in one single, selfdemonstrating shape, an object of knowledge with the properties of the natural object itself. This is the paradox of the self-demonstrating picture’s double illusion of communication: on the one hand it seems to be a picture of the natural appearance of the object, but on the other it is, in fact, simultaneously a depiction of a cognitive concept, a visual name of this object. It is a conditional and man-made classification, which is embodied into the body itself. (Less)
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- author
- Weimarck, Torsten LU
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- publishing date
- 2012
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- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- scientific images, anatomy, picture theory, self-demonstrating pictures
- host publication
- Ideas in History. Journal of the Nordic Society in the History of Ideas
- editor
- Dorfman, Ben
- volume
- Vol. 5
- issue
- No. 1-2, 2010/11
- pages
- 17 pages
- publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press
- conference name
- The Image in Science: Infrequently Asked Questions. Responses of the humanities to visualism in science.
- conference dates
- 2009-11-06
- ISSN
- 1890-1832
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The paper is accepted to be published in the journal Ideas in History.
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