Silent Poetry (eBook)

Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France

Nicholas Mirzoeff (Autor)

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2019
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19450-9 (ISBN)

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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 artists. Painters, sculptors, photographers, and graphic artists all emanated from the Institute for the Deaf in Paris, playing a central role in the vibrant deaf culture of the period. With the rise of Darwinism, eugenics, and race science, however, the deaf found themselves categorized as "e;savages,"e; excluded and ignored by the hearing. This book is concerned with the process and history of that marginalization, the constitution of a "e;center"e; from which the abnormal could be excluded, and the vital role of visual culture within this discourse.Based on groundbreaking archival and pictorial research, Mirzoeff's exciting and intertextual analysis of what he terms the "e;silent screen of deafness"e; produces an alternative hIstory of nineteenth-century art that challenges canonical view of the history of art, the inheritance of the Enlightenment, and the functions, status, and meanings of visual culture itself. Fusing methodologies from cultural studies, poststructuralism and art history, his study will be important for students and scholars of art history, cultural and deaf studies, and the history of medicine, and will interest a general audience concerned with the relationship of the deaf and the larger society.Nicholas Mirzoeff is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Wisconsin.Originally published in 1995.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.1.2019
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Legacy Library
• Zusatzinfo: 77 halftones
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 200 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Academic Art • After Babel • Against Happiness • Analogy • Ancient monument • aphorism • Art for art's sake • Cagot • Categorical imperative • Cesare Lombroso • Charles-Antoine Coypel • Charles Baudelaire • Clement Greenberg • counter-revolutionary • David d'Angers • Deaf Culture • Deaf education • Deaf History • deaf-mute • despotism • dreyfus affair • École des Beaux-Arts • Edward Said • Eugenics • euthanasia • Exchange of women • Feeble-minded • Ferdinand Berthier • Fine Art • Francisco Goya • Gallaudet University • grande odalisque • grotesque body • Gustave Courbet • High Modernism • History Painting • Idiot • I. King Jordan • imperialism • Inbreeding • Inception • Indication (medicine) • Jacques Derrida • Jacques Lacan • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • John Bulwer • Joris-Karl Huysmans • Jules Ferry • Jules Laforgue • Karl Pearson • Kobena Mercer • Laurent Clerc • Le Figaro • Leonardo da Vinci • Linda Nochlin • Louis Braille • Martin Brothers • Maurice Merleau-Ponty • modernism • Napoleon III • Neocolonialism • of education • On the Eve • Oppression • Oralism • Orientalism • Pathology • Paul Broca • Paul Delaroche • Payot • Phonocentrism • Phrenology • Physiognomy • Pierre Desloges • Post-Impressionism • Putto • Quintilian • Rabelais and His World • Realism (arts) • Robert Musil • Romanticism • Royal touch • Sancho Panza • scientific racism • Sexual Preference (book) • Sign Language • Superiority (short story) • Symptom • The Birth of the Clinic • the new science • theory of painting • The Valet • The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction • Thomas Clarkson • Victor Cousin • Victor Hugo • Visible Speech • war • William Hogarth • Writing and Difference
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19450-5 / 0691194505
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19450-9 / 9780691194509