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Scientists investigate paintings for clues about volcano eruptions |
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Scientists investigate paintings for clues about volcano eruptions |
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It's interesting that
It's interesting that scientists would return to the subjective images of painting to cull them for data. It seems to disrupt the idea that images can be parsed out based on their fidelity to reality (which is so often the first criterion applied to visual communication). Once that distinction becomes confused, we can begin to ask some more interesting questions about why images are useful (to their producers and audiences). For more on science and its use of painting, you might consider: Kenneth Haltman, “The Poetics of Geologic Reverie: Figures of Source and Origin in Samuel Seymour’s Landscapes of the Rocky Mountains,” in Art and Science in America: Issues of Representation, ed. Amy R.W. Meyers (San Marino, California: Huntington Library, 1998), 138-139.
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I totally agree. What is interesting is that they actually can correlate the paintings to volcanic eruptions. I’m curious to see how this evidence will fly with other scientists.