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Barbara Maria Stafford

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

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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. — biography from Ribbon of Darkness: Inferencing from the Shadowy Arts and Sciences … (more)

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Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen 103 copies

Artful Science: Enlightenment Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual… 89 copies

Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine 78 copies

Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting 49 copies

Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images 46 copies

Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images 32 copies

Voyage into substance : art, science, nature, and the illustrated travel… 11 copies

A Field Guide to a New Meta-field: Bridging the Humanities-Neurosciences… 10 copies

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

Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images by Stafford Barbara Maria… 1 copy

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