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Abstract
No area of humanistic endeavor makes plainer than the study of the eighteenth century that the generic divisions among disciplines and the traditional institutional frame-work of specialized university departments are incongruent with the prismatic nature of current leading research. No century - dominated as it was by the comparativist met-aphor in the study of human activity - makes plainer the pressing need for establishing workable models to assess the efficacy of individual, and competing hypotheses, and for determining how these are to be placed within a well-articulated, cross-disciplinary, or as yet unspecialized, con-text.
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Barbara Maria Stafford
Many of Barbara Stafford's writings have dealt with relationships between art, nature, and theory in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In addition to various articles that bring together art and science, she has published two books, Symbol and Myth: Humbert de Superville's Essay on Absolute Signs in Art (1979) and Voyage into Substance: Art, Science, Nature and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760-1840 (1984), and now is preparing a study on the tradition of “visibilizing the invisible.” [Department of Art, Cochrane-Woods Art Center, University of Chicago, 5540 S. Greenwood Ave., Chicago, IL 60637]