Konverents Eesti teadusillustratsiooni uurimisest
Conference on the research of Estonian scientific illustration

Summary/Abstract: In October 2022, the exhibition "Art or Science" opened in the Kumu Art Museum, born from the joint work of three institutions, the Estonian Art Museum, the Estonian Academy of Arts and the Museum of the University of Tartu, whose curators the author of this article had the pleasure of being a part of. While in the Western world there are long traditions in the study of the relationship between art and science, in Estonia this can be considered the first major research and exhibition project that takes a closer look at the older scientific drawings of Estonia and Baltic Germany. For the Kumu Art Museum, it was also a conceptual continuation of several previous exhibitions related to visual culture studies, which dealt with, for example, the role of photography ("Image explosion", 2019), historical images ("History in a picture - a picture in history", 2018) and colonial themes ("The conqueror's gaze", 2019). . Art or Science continues this journey by exploring and interpreting scientific drawings and illustrations, with a primary focus on natural and medical sciences in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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