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Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France
Paperback / softback
Main Details
| Title |
Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Nicholas Mirzoeff
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| Series | Princeton Legacy Library |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:336 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 203 |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780691655567
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| Classifications | Dewey:305.908162 |
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| Audience | | Undergraduate | | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | | Professional & Vocational | | General | |
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| Illustrations |
77 halftones
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Princeton University Press
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| Imprint |
Princeton University Press
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| Publication Date |
15 January 2019 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
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 nineteenth-century school of over one hundred deaf arti
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