Renaissance Futurities: Science, Art, Invention

Open Access Published by University of California Press 2019

Renaissance Futurities

Science, Art, Invention

Edited by: Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780520969513

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Renaissance Futurities considers the intersections between artistic rebirth, the new science, and European imperialism in the global early modern world. Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez take as inspiration the work of Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), prolific artist and inventor, and other polymaths such as philosopher Giulio “Delminio” Camillo (1480–1544), physician and naturalist Francisco Hernández de Toledo (1514–1587), and writer Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616). This concern with futurity is inspired by the Renaissance itself, a period defined by visions of the future, as well as by recent theorizing of temporality in Renaissance and Queer Studies. This transdisciplinary volume is at the cutting edge of the humanities, medical humanities, scientific discovery, and avant-garde artistic expression.

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Black Charlene Villaseñor :

Charlene Villaseñor Black is Professor of Art History and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Creating the Cult of St. Joseph: Art and Gender in the Spanish Empire, editor of Tradition and Transformation: Chicana/o Art from the 1970s to the 1990s and Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, founding editor in chief of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, and coeditor of Arts, Crafts, and Materials in the Age of Global Encounter, 1492–1800, a special edition of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History.

Mari-Tere Álvarez is Project Specialist at the J. Paul Getty Museum and Associate Director of USC’s International Museum Institute. She has recently coedited Remix: Changing Conversations in Museums of the Americas; Beyond the Turnstile: Making the Case for Museums and Sustainable Values; and Arts, Crafts, and Materials in the Age of Global Encounter, 1492–1800, a special edition of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Illustrations Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction. The Future is Now: Reflections on Art, Science, Futurity Charlene Villaseñor Black and Mari-Tere Álvarez Open Access Download PDF	1
1. Moon Shot: From Renaissance Imagination to Modern Reality Mari-Tere Álvarez Open Access Download PDF	9
2. Machines in the Garden Jessica Riskin Open Access Download PDF	19
3. Inventing Interfaces: Camillo’s Memory Theater and the Renaissance of Human-Computer Interaction Peter Matussek Open Access Download PDF	41
4. Futurities, Empire, and Censorship: Cervantes in Conversation with Ovid and Orwell Frederick A. de Armas Open Access Download PDF	65
5. Anticipating the Future: Leonardo’s Unpublished Anatomical and Mathematical Observations Morteza Gharib, Francis C. Wells and Mari-Tere Álvarez Open Access Download PDF	83
6. Medicine as a Hunt: Searching for the Secrets of the New World William Eamon Open Access Download PDF	100
7. The Half-Life of Blue Charlene Villaseñor Black Open Access Download PDF	118
8. ‘Ingenuity’ and Artists’ Ways of Knowing Claire Farago Open Access Download PDF	130
Notes Open Access Download PDF	149
Bibliography Open Access Download PDF	205
Contributors Open Access Download PDF	233
Index Open Access Download PDF	235

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
- Main content: 256

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Published: November 5, 2019
ISBN: 9780520969513