Interpreting images in terms of ideas of nature as ideas about society

For each image:

• 1. We describe what is literally depicted or stated.
• 2. We try to expose what is only implicit, what is not literally depicted or stated.
• 3. We make interpretations of #1 in the form of ideas about the social order that is being defended or promoted.

(Afterwards, we think about why ideas of nature are used to defend or promote ideas about society. Is this always the case?)

Warm-up Larson elephant cartoon

1. Hierarachy of being (Bouelles, 1510)
2. Body and Cosmos 1 (Fludd, 1624)
3. Body and Cosmos 2
4. Bonnet Chain of Being 1745(alternate)
5. Cuvier, Horse Skeleton
6. French Formal Gardens
7. Park at Blenheim Palace (photo 1980; park designed 1760s)
8. Lawson 1825
9. Field 1860
10. Haeckel Embryo, 1874
11. Haeckel Tree 1, 1879
12. Haeckel Tree 2, 1866
13. Seals by Elliot 1870s
14. Natural History 1880s
15. Garden City, 1902
16. AMNH African Mammals 1 (constructed mid 1920s-30s)
17. AMNH African Mammals 2 (constructed mid 1920s-30s)
18. AMNH African Mammals 3 (constructed mid 1920s-30s)
19. Body as Factory (1941 based on 1920s image)
20. Head as Factory (1941 based on 1920s image)
21. Evolution 1939
22. China Commune 1960s?
23. Evolution Cartoon 1980s
24. Evolution Cartoon 1980s 2
25. Hormones 1987