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Silent Poetry

Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France

Silent Poetry( )
Author: Mirzoeff, Nicholas
ISBN:978-0-691-03789-9
Publication Date:Jul 1995
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $130.00
Book Description:

This book explores the dynamic interaction between art and the sign language of the deaf in France from the philosophes to the introduction of the sound motion picture. Nicholas Mirzoeff shows how the French Revolution transformed the ancien régime metaphor of painting as silent poetry into a nineteenth-century school of over one hundred deaf artists. Painters, sculptors, photographers, and graphic artists all emanated from the Institute for the Deaf in Paris, playing a central role...
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Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Art / European
Art / History / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Sign Language
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.24 x 22.86 x 2.769 cm
Book Weight:0.682 Kilograms



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