@inproceedings{8cf843cec5714a5dbe6771c84d2d79b6,
title = "Is There Really Something Which Might Be Called a 'Self-Demonstrating Picture' : Even Within Scientific Imagery? Some Observations on a Double Illusion of Communication",
abstract = "I will propose some ideas about such pictures claiming to be self-demonstrating or selfillustrating, mostly using some classical anatomy illustrations. Based on these you may say that the anatomy seems to create a remarkable, realistic pictorial code, which casts together in one single, selfdemonstrating shape, an object of knowledge with the properties of the natural object itself. This is the paradox of the self-demonstrating picture{\textquoteright}s double illusion of communication: on the one hand it seems to be a picture of the natural appearance of the object, but on the other it is, in fact, simultaneously a depiction of a cognitive concept, a visual name of this object. It is a conditional and man-made classification, which is embodied into the body itself.",
keywords = "scientific images, anatomy, picture theory, self-demonstrating pictures",
author = "Torsten Weimarck",
note = "The paper is accepted to be published in the journal Ideas in History.; The Image in Science: Infrequently Asked Questions. Responses of the humanities to visualism in science. ; Conference date: 06-11-2009",
year = "2012",
language = "English",
volume = "Vol. 5",
publisher = "Museum Tusculanum Press",
number = "No. 1-2, 2010/11",
pages = "71--87",
editor = "Ben Dorfman",
booktitle = "Ideas in History. Journal of the Nordic Society in the History of Ideas",
address = "Denmark",
}