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Things that talk : object lessons from art and science

In nine original essays, internationally renowned historians of art and science seek to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing their gritty materiality
Print Book, English, 2004
Zone Books ; MIT Press [distributor], New York, Cambridge, Mass., 2004
447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
9781890951436, 9781890951443, 1890951439, 1890951447
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Preface Things That Talk7(2)
Lorraine Daston
Introduction Speechless9(18)
Lorraine Daston
Bosch's Equipment
27(40)
Joseph Leo Koerner
The Freestanding Column in Eighteenth-Century Religious Architecture
67(34)
Antoine Picon
Staging an Empire
101(46)
M. Norton Wise
Elaine M. Wise
A Science Whose Business Is Bursting: Soap Bubbles as Commodities in Classical Physics
147(48)
Simon Schaffer
Res Ipsa Loquitur
195(28)
Joel Snyder
The Glass Flowers
223(34)
Lorraine Daston
Image of Self
257(40)
Peter Galison
News, Paper, Scissors: Clippings in the Sciences and Arts Around 1920
297(32)
Anke te Heesen
Talking Pictures: Clement Greenberg's Pollock
329(46)
Caroline A. Jones
Notes375(54)
Contributors429(4)
Index433