Barbara Maria Stafford

Author of Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen

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About the Author

Barbara Maria Stafford is the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of art history at the University of Chicago. She is the author of many books, including Echo Objects, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Includes the names: Barbara M. Stafford, Stafford Barbara Maria

Image credit: Photo courtesy the University of Chicago Experts Exchange (link)

Works by Barbara Maria Stafford

Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education (1994) 98 copies

Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine (1991) 84 copies

Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting (1999) 52 copies

Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images (1996) 51 copies

Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images (2007) 35 copies

Voyage into substance : art, science, nature, and the illustrated travel account, 1760-1840 (1984) 14 copies

A Field Guide to a New Meta-field: Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences Divide (2011) 10 copies

Ribbon of Darkness: Inferencing from the Shadowy Arts and Sciences (2019) 2 copies

Good Looking 1 copy

Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images by Stafford Barbara Maria (1996-08-01) Hardcover (1600) 1 copy

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