Devices of wonder : from the world in a box to images on a screen : [exhibition, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., from 13 November 2001 through 3 February 2002] / Barbara Maria Stafford and Frances Terpak ; with an object list by Isotta Poggi.

• 1. Revealing Technologies / Magical Domains / Barbara Maria Stafford. The Demon of Analogy. Cabinet-Instrument. Crystalline Machines. Domestic Reflections. Cog-in-a-Box. Techniques of Epiphany. Shadow Cave. Phantomware. Bright Oramas. Home Appliances. Cosmos in a Palm -- Objects and Contexts / Frances Terpak. The Eye, Natural and Artificial. Wunderkammern and Wunderkabinette. Display Cabinet with Assemblage. Selling Natural History. Lodestones and Magnets. Hoefnagel. Faceted Lenses. Experiments in the Home. Imaging the Moon. Microscopes. Solar Microscope. Zoosemiotics. Changing Images. Anamorphosis. Anthropomorphic Landscapes. Blow Book. Mirrors. Automata (Batteries Not Included). The Pantograph and the Writing Automaton. The Boxes of Joseph Cornell. The Shadows of Kara Walker. Magic Lantern. Theatre de l'univers. Panoramas. Diorama. Carmontelle. Perspective Theaters. Vues d'optique. Images in Motion. Stereo. Light and Virtual Substance -- List of Objects in the Exhibition / Isotta Poggi.

• "Modern media machines are the latest addition to a long line of captivating instruments for the augmentation of perception. In Devices of Wonder, Barbara Stafford weaves an array of such sense-extending inventions into a provocative analysis of the social and cultural intersections between old and new technologies. Complementing her wide-ranging investigation are Frances Terpak's thirty-one short essays tracking the complex and often surprising links among individual items. An unusual catalog for an unusual exhibition, Devices of Wonder reframes the history of the beautiful "eye machines" humans have created out of our desire to see more, better, farther, and in a different way."--Jacket. 

Ämnesord

Illusioner  (sao)

Visuell perception  (sao)

Art and technology  -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Optical instruments  -- History -- Exhibitions. (LCSH)

Perception  (sfit)

Teknologi  (sfit)

Konst  (sfit)

Pre-cinema  (sfit)

Utställningskatalog  (sfit)

Konst och teknik  -- historia (sao)

Optiska instrument  -- historia (sao)

Art  -- Technological innovations -- Exhibitions (bnb)

Visual perception  -- Technological innovations -- Exhibitions (bnb)

Hallucinations and illusions  (LCSH)

Visual perception  (LCSH)

Genre

Utställningskataloger  (saogf)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ib.4 Konsthistoria: nya tiden

P:k Teknik, industri och kommunikationer: historia

Iit-qaz Konstutställningar: Förenta staterna: särskilda utställningar

Klassifikation

700.105 (DDC)

707.4794/93 (DDC)

Ib.4 (kssb/7)

P:k (kssb/7)

Iit-qaz Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001-2002 (kssb/7)