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Modelwork
The Material Culture of Making and Knowing
Martin Brückner (Edited by), Sandy Isenstadt (Edited by), Sarah Wasserman (Edited by)
9781517910891
Hardback, published 12 October 2021
312 pages, 69 black & white illustrations
25.4 x 17.8 x 3.8 cm, 0.762 kg
"Essays by these art historians combine attention to the circulation and galvanizing force of images with a material culturalist sensibility that locates those images’ power in the manual practices, forms, and formats that support their transfer." -Winterthur Portfolio "Modelwork nicely shows that models are not only the critical instruments of modern science but have also become the essential tools with which we shape the world around us. " -Isis
How making models allows us to recall what was and to discover what still might be By focusing on the material aspects of models, including the digital ones that would seem to displace their analogue forebears, these insightful essays ground modeling as a tactile and emphatically humanistic endeavor. With contributions from scholars in the history of science and technology, visual studies, musicology, literary studies, and material culture, this book demonstrates that models serve as invaluable tools across every field of cultural development, both historically and in the present day. Modelwork is unique in calling attention to modeling’s duality, a dynamic exchange between imagination and matter. This singular publication shows us how models shape our ability to ascertain the surrounding world and to find new ways to transform it. Contributors: Hilary Bryon, Virginia Tech; Johanna Drucker, UCLA; Seher Erdoğan Ford, Temple U; Peter Galison, Harvard U; Lisa Gitelman, New York U; Reed Gochberg, Harvard U; Catherine Newman Howe, Williams College; Christopher J. Lukasik, Purdue U; Martin Scherzinger, New York U; Juliet S. Sperling, U of Washington; Annabel Jane Wharton, Duke U.
Whether looking inward to the intricacies of human anatomy or outward to the furthest recesses of the universe, expanding the boundaries of human inquiry depends to a surprisingly large degree on the making of models. In this wide-ranging volume, scholars from diverse fields examine the interrelationships between a model’s material foundations and the otherwise invisible things it gestures toward, underscoring the pivotal role of models in understanding and shaping the world around us. Whether in the form of reproductions, interpretive processes, or constitutive tools, models may bridge the gap between the tangible and the abstract.
Contents Introduction: Modelwork Martin BrÜckner and Sandy Isenstadt Part I. Knowing 1. Defining Models Annabel Jane Wharton 2. Material Models of Immaterial Things Peter Galison Part II. Sensing 3. William Farish’s Devices and Drawings: Models for Envisioning Immaterial and Material Realms Hilary Bryon 4. “The Instructed Eye”: What Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Drawing Books Tell Us about Vision and How We See Christopher J. Lukasik 5. Algorithmic Audition: Modeling Musical Perception Martin Scherzinger Part III. Making 6. The Useful Arts of Nineteenth-Century Patent Models Reed Gochberg 7. Bodies Made of Numbers, Numbers Made of Bodies Catherine Newman Howe 8. Hypermodels: Architectural Production in Virtual Spaces Seher Erdoğan Ford Part IV. Doing 9. Modeling Maneuvers: Anatomical Illustration and the Practice of Touch Juliet S. Sperling 10. Models and Manufactures: The Shoe as Commodity Lisa Gitelman 11. Modeling Interpretation Johanna Drucker Afterword: On the Humility of Models Sarah Wasserman Acknowledgments Contributors Index