Barbara Maria Stafford

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Books

Symbol and Myth: Humbert de Superville's Essay on Absolute signs in Art. Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, 1979.

Excerpts from Symbol and Myth may be found at

[http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/arthis/HDS/literatuur/stafinfo.htm]

Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760-1840. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1984.

Body Criticism: Imaging the Unseen in Enlightenment Art and Medicine. Cambridge, MA, and London: MIT Press, 1991.

Artful Science. Enlightenment, Entertainment and the Eclipse of Visual Education. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994.

Good Looking. Essays on the Virtue of Images. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996.

Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999.

Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen, (coauthor: Frances Terpak) Catalog for an exhibition to be held at The Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, November 13, 2001 to February 6, 2002.(Getty Research Institute, 2001).

[Getty Web site shows some of the Devices of Wonder in action ]

Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity, (contributor as member of the Committee on Information Technology and Creativity) William J. Mitchell, Alan S. Inouye, and Marjory S. Blumenthal, Editors, , Washington D.C.: National Academy Press, 2003. Available online: http://bob.nap.edu/html/beyond_productivity/

Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 2007.


    Translations

Body Criticism, republished in Japanese

Body Criticism, Chapter IV republished in French: "De la marque. L'illustration de l'invisible dans les arts et la médecine à l'age des Lumières", La Part de l'Oeil 11, pp177-237 (1995)

Artful Science, republished in German and Japanese.

Good Looking: Essays on the Virtue of Images, Tokyo (Sanyo, 2005) republished in Japanese.

Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images to be republished in Japanese


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