Silent Poetry

Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France

By:

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Format:

Paperback / softback

Series:

Princeton Legacy Library

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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

Release date Australia

January 15th, 2019

Author

Nicholas Mirzoeff

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Illustrations

77 halftones

Pages

336

Series

Princeton Legacy Library

ISBN-13

9780691655567

Product ID

33568253

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