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"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"--
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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 Erdöan 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
About the author
Martin Brückner is professor of English and material culture studies at the University of Delaware. He is author or coeditor of several books, most recently
The Social Life of Maps in America, 1750–1860.
Sandy Isenstadt is professor and chair of art history at the University of Delaware and author or coeditor of several books, most recently
Electric Light: An Architectural History.
Sarah Wasserman is associate professor of English and material culture studies at the University of Delaware. She is author of
The Death of Things: Ephemera and the American Novel (Minnesota, 2020).
