cache.ch/shadowofthet... examines the variety of diagrammatic representations of relatedness in scientific and popular practice. In the Age of Revolution ca. 1800, logical and iconographic meanings of the tree in depicting descent gained new resonance and political urgency /1 - ThreadSky

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https://cache.ch/shadowofthetree/ examines the variety of diagrammatic representations of relatedness in scientific and popular practice. In the Age of Revolution ca. 1800, logical and iconographic meanings of the tree in depicting descent gained new resonance and political urgency /1

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intercomverlag.bsky.social•469 days ago

Through a set of paintings and printed illustrations, Stéphane Jettot captures the shifting political meanings of the tree in this period – often expressed through satire and caricature – from dynastic descent to a post-dynastic state and nation. /2
https://cache.ch/shadowofthetree/form/treesfromdynastictonationalemblem/

intercomverlag.bsky.social•469 days ago

In this post-Rev. period rich in tree iconography, as Petter Hellström shows, Henri Berton deployed preexisting metaphors of descent and the ‘genealogical tree’ to represent the ‘great family of chords’ and make them visible for didactic purposes. /3
https://cache.ch/shadowofthetree/descent/treeofharmony/

intercomverlag.bsky.social•469 days ago

This volume ed. by @ehounshell.bsky.social and Ruth Amstutz with over 20 individually authored chapters is an outcome of the SNF Sinergia project, “In the Shadow of the Tree: The Diagrammatics of Relatedness as Scientific, Scholarly and Popular Practice.” /4

intercomverlag.bsky.social•469 days ago

For these chapters and more: http://cache.ch/shadowofthetree. More chapters will appear in early December, a print edition in 2024. Join us for the release at Sphères in Zürich, January 10, 2024. /end

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