Finding Röntgen: medical x-ray photographs in avant-garde journals, a transnational journey.

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Výsledek na webu

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Finding Röntgen: medical x-ray photographs in avant-garde journals, a transnational journey.

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The interplay between the discoveries of physics and the popular press underwent a decisive moment in 1895, with the announcement of Rontgen’s X-rays in the Vienna Presse, marking a significant shift in how scientific breakthroughs were communicated to the public. This is the beginning of the ambiguous status of these technical images, which have recently stepped out of the circles of medical and scientific history to become an important chapter in media culture. Rather than treating X-ray images as media, this paper explores them as photomechanically mediated objects. Examining their journey through periodical culture as photomechanical reproductions reveals their role as agents of artistic and cultural transformation of fundamental importance to the history ofnmodernism and the avant-garde. This presentation looks at the intersections between medical and photographic images in the 1920s and 30s, tracing the path of a single X-ray photograph. Originally taken in a Berlin laboratory for the training of female scientists, this image found its way into medical publications in Vienna and art journals in Berlin before appearing in the Prague avant-garde magazine ReD in 1928. In the early 1930s, it was finally mistakenly attributed to Moholy Nagy’s artistic corpus. This unpublished case study aims to show how approaching these images from the material perspective of periodical studies can enrich our understanding of the relationship between scientific images and art history. By reconstructing their transnational migration, this approach leads to new insights and attributions, shedding light on marginalized subjectivities and authorships, especially those of women, traditionally overlooked by the canon.n

Název v anglickém jazyce

Finding Röntgen: medical x-ray photographs in avant-garde journals, a transnational journey.

Popis výsledku anglicky

The interplay between the discoveries of physics and the popular press underwent a decisive moment in 1895, with the announcement of Rontgen’s X-rays in the Vienna Presse, marking a significant shift in how scientific breakthroughs were communicated to the public. This is the beginning of the ambiguous status of these technical images, which have recently stepped out of the circles of medical and scientific history to become an important chapter in media culture. Rather than treating X-ray images as media, this paper explores them as photomechanically mediated objects. Examining their journey through periodical culture as photomechanical reproductions reveals their role as agents of artistic and cultural transformation of fundamental importance to the history ofnmodernism and the avant-garde. This presentation looks at the intersections between medical and photographic images in the 1920s and 30s, tracing the path of a single X-ray photograph. Originally taken in a Berlin laboratory for the training of female scientists, this image found its way into medical publications in Vienna and art journals in Berlin before appearing in the Prague avant-garde magazine ReD in 1928. In the early 1930s, it was finally mistakenly attributed to Moholy Nagy’s artistic corpus. This unpublished case study aims to show how approaching these images from the material perspective of periodical studies can enrich our understanding of the relationship between scientific images and art history. By reconstructing their transnational migration, this approach leads to new insights and attributions, shedding light on marginalized subjectivities and authorships, especially those of women, traditionally overlooked by the canon.n

Druh

O - Ostatní výsledky

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60401 - Arts, Art history

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů