As scholars debate the most appropriate way to teach evolutionary theory; Constance Areson Clark provides an intriguing reflection on similar debates in the not-too-distant past. Set against the backdrop of the Jazz Age; God―or Gorilla explores the efforts of biologists to explain evolution to a confused and conflicted public during the 1920s. Focusing on the use of images and popularization; Clark shows how scientists and anti-evolutionists deployed schematics; cartoons; photographs; sculptures; and paintings to win the battle for public acceptance. She uses representative illustrations and popular media accounts of the struggle to reveal how concepts of evolutionary theory changed as they were presented to; and absorbed into; popular culture.Engagingly written and deftly argued; God―or Gorilla offers original insights into the role of images in communicating―and miscommunicating―scientific ideas to the lay public.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy golnazSo good.4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. CompellingBy MarieThis is a challenging but masterfully crafted text on photographic theory and potentially one of the most important publications within this field during the last decade. The Disciplinary Frame is not a text you sit down and read. exhausted after a long day. Its prose are dense but rewarding. Tagg has crafted an engaging examination of the photographs documentary potential. examining the medium in terms of regimes of meaning. This text is aware of the methodological schism that exists between art historians and historians over their analysis of images. the former concentrating on whats inside the frame and the later looking (predominantly) at the publishing and historical context: frame itself. Tagg in many ways aims to look at the frame and the image as discursively connected; fused. It is a refreshing approach. ground in practical examples from both nineteenth and twentieth century photographic practice. This is an essential read for anyone working with images. academically. or anyone interested more generally in understanding how photography has been used in the public space to document types of bodies and. thus. "call into place" identities.5 of 27 people found the following review helpful. Capturing meaning? Read the excerpt before you buy.By CangrimanThe author may be an expert on the subject but due to his convoluted (if not incomprehensible) prose it is almost impossible to learn anything from this book. Capturing meaning (as the title suggests) may not be the problem with this book but releasing meaning is. Read the excerpt before you buy.
