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Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France - Princeton Legacy Library
Nicholas Mirzoeff
Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France - Princeton Legacy Library
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 nineteenth-century school of over one hundred deaf arti
336 pages, 77 halftones
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | January 15, 2019 |
ISBN13 | 9780691655567 |
Publishers | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 336 |
Dimensions | 203 × 254 × 17 mm · 662 g |
Language | English |
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