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Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France
(Hardback)
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France
Contributors:
By (Author) Nicholas Mirzoeff
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
26th March 2019
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
Cultural studies
Dewey:
305.908162
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
320
Dimensions:
Width 203mm, Height 254mm
Description
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
