Silent Poetry : : Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France / / Nicholas Mirzoeff.
This book explores the dynamic interaction between art and the sign language of the deaf in France from the philsopheRs to the introduction of the sound motion picture. Nicholas Mirzoeff shows how the French Revolution transformed the ancienT regime metaphor of painting as silent poetry into a ninet...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2019] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 77 halftones |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. ANCIENT GESTURES, MODERN SIGNS
- 2. SIGNS AND CITIZENS
- 3. THE MIMICRY OF MIMESIS
- 4. VISUALIZING ANTHROPOLOGY
- 5. A DEAF VARIETY OF MODERNISM?
- EPILOGUE
- NOTES
- INDEX