Mr. Collier's Letter Racks: A Tale of Art & Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age - Couverture rigide

Wahrman, Dror

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199738866 ISBN 13 : 9780199738861

Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2012

Synopsis

For 300 years, a unique and complex artistic puzzle has been hidden, the solution of which reveals an extraordinary critique of what can be described as the first modern media revolution. The mind behind this puzzle was a Dutch/British still-life painter named Edward Collier. Working around 1700, Collier has been neglected, even forgotten, precisely because his secret messages have never been noticed, let alone understood. Until now. In this book, Dror Wahrman recovers the tale of an extraordinary illusionist artist who engaged in a wholly original way with a major transformation of his generation: an unprecedented explosion in cheap print - newspapers, pamphlets, informational publications, artistic prints - that was produced for immediate release and far-flung circulation faster and in larger quantities that ever before. Edward Collier developed a secret language within his still-life paintings - replete with minutely coded messages, witty games, intricate allusions, and private jokes - in order to draw attention to the potential and the pitfalls of this new information age, uncannily prefiguring the modern perspectives of the media-savvy 21st century. This heretofore obscure artist embedded in his paintings an ingenious commentary on the media revolution of his period, on the birth of modern politics, and on art itself.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ruth N. Halls Professor of History, Indiana University and Professor of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press Inc
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199738866
• ISBN 13: 9780199738861
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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