Silent Poetry Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France |
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| Author:
| Mirzoeff, Nicholas |
| Series title: | Princeton Legacy Library |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-65556-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2019 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $59.00 |
Book Description:
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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
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