Silent poetry: deafness, sign, and visual culture in modern france
Auteur :
Mirzoeff, Nicholas
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691655567
Date de publication :
15 janv. 2019
Dimensions :
25,4 x 20,3 cm
Poids :
662 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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