Mr. Collier''s Letter Racks - A Tale of Art Illusion At Threshold of Modern Information Age

Zusatztext Wahrman guides the reader through the details of the evidence as he finds it on dozens of canvases and, where possible, in Dutch archives with such a sure hand that most readers will not feel that a better story is possible.... Informationen zum Autor Ruth N. Halls Professor of History, Indiana University and Professor of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Klappentext Uncovers an artistic puzzle in the illusionist paintings by Edward Collier, a Dutch-British still-life painter who moved to London at the end of the seventeenth century and encoded a sophisticated critique of the information revolution that ushered in the modern information age. Zusammenfassung Uncovers an artistic puzzle in the illusionist paintings by Edward Collier, a Dutch-British still-life painter who moved to London at the end of the seventeenth century and encoded a sophisticated critique of the information revolution that ushered in the modern information age. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Puzzles Chapter 1: Print 2.0 c. 1700: A New Media Regime Chapter 2: Life Not Still Chapter 3: The Nature of Print Chapter 4: Marking Time Chapter 5: Monarchy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Chapter 6: Eye Con Chapter 7: A Man with an Impossible Temper Chapter 8: Tom, Dick, and Henry Chapter 9: The Collier Club? Chapter 10: Death of the Author? Chapter 11: Which Revolution? Or the Memory of Mr. Lory Chapter 12: A Signature Gone Wild Epilogue Notes Acknowledgments Index

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• Authors: Dror Wahrman, Dror (Ruth N. Halls Professor of History Wahrman, Wahrman Dror
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9780199738861
• ISBN: 978-0-19-973886-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > General, dictionaries; ART / History / General, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, Netherlands, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, History of Art, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Painting & paintings, Individual artists, art monographs, C 1600 To C 1700, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Paintings and painting, ART / European / General