The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History - Couverture rigide

Hung, Wu

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1789146100 ISBN 13 : 9781789146103

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 2022

Synopsis

'This very readable study uses the full-length mirror as a point of entry into a highly stimulating range of questions about technologies, representations and the connections between them.' - Craig Clunas, University of Oxford

This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. One story, through time and space, crisscrosses the globe to introduce a broad range of historical actors: kings and slaves, artists and writers, merchants and craftsmen, courtesans and commoners. The other story explores the connections between object, painting and photography, the full-length mirror providing a new perspective on historical artefacts and their images in art and visual culture.
The Full-Length Mirror represents a new kind of global art history in which 'global' is understood in terms of both geography and visual medium, a history encompassing Europe, Asia and North America, and spanning over two millennia from the fourth century BCE to the early twentieth century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Wu Hung is Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. His many books include A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture (Reaktion, 2011) and Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China (Reaktion, 2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1789146100
• ISBN 13: 9781789146103
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 288
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• Personne responsable: non disponible