The art of philosophy : visual thinking in Europe from the late Renaissance to the early Enlightenment
by
 
Berger, Susanna, 1984- author.

Title
The art of philosophy : visual thinking in Europe from the late Renaissance to the early Enlightenment

Author
Berger, Susanna, 1984- author.

ISBN
9780691172279

Personal Author
Berger, Susanna, 1984- author.

Publication Information
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2017]

Physical Description
xiv, 317 pages : illustrations (some color), 2 folded leaves, maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm.

Contents
Apin's cabinet of printed curiosities -- Thinking through plural images of logic -- The visible order of student lecture notebooks -- Visual thinking in logic notebooks and Alba amicorum -- The generation of art as the generation of philosophy.

Abstract
Delving into the intersections between artistic images and philosophical knowledge in Europe from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries, The Art of Philosophy shows that the making and study of visual art functioned as important methods of philosophical thinking and instruction. From frontispieces of books to monumental prints created by philosophers in collaboration with renowned artists, Susanna Berger examines visual representations of philosophy and overturns prevailing assumptions about the limited function of the visual in European intellectual history. Rather than merely illustrating already existing philosophical concepts, visual images generated new knowledge for both Aristotelian thinkers and anti-Aristotelians, such as Descartes and Hobbes. Printmaking and drawing played a decisive role in discoveries that led to a move away from the authority of Aristotle in the seventeenth century. Berger interprets visual art from printed books, student lecture notebooks, alba amicorum (friendship albums), broadsides, and paintings, and examines the work of such artists as Pietro Testa, Leonard Gaultier, Abraham Bosse, Durer, and Rembrandt. In particular, she focuses on the rise and decline of the "plural image," a genre that was popular among early modern philosophers. Plural images brought multiple images together on the same page, often in order to visualize systems of logic, metaphysics, natural philosophy, or moral philosophy.

Subject Term
Art and philosophy -- Europe.
 
Aesthetics, Modern -- 17th century.
 
Aesthetics, Modern -- 18th century.
 
Visual communication in art -- Europe -- History.
 
Art, Renaissance.
 
Art, Modern -- 18th century.

Bibliographical References
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-302) and index.

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