The Jewish ghetto and the visual imagination of early modern Venice / Dana E. Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Dana E., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Italy--Venice.

Architecture.

Jewish ghettos.

Italy--Venice.

Jewish ghettos--Italy--Venice.

Buildings--Italy--Venice.

Buildings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 188 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice is not a diachronic study of the ghetto's architectural development or microhistory of the masons who erected its tenements. Instead, this is a book about how the built landscape makes, in the words of W.J.T. Mitchell, "seeing show itself." I focus on everyday architectural elements in order to call attention to the vernacular vision of early modern Venice. I am interested in the exchange of gazes framed by ghetto architecture that expose how visuality shapes sociality. That is, I am interested in ways of seeing windows, walls, and gates that look through them to see how they actively inform society. Through a dissection of the ghetto's architectural anatomy, I parse its constituent elements to interrogate seeing as a mediator of urban experience. I analyze the details of construction and design to deconstruct how the ghetto's fenestration patterns, building heights, and enclosure walls stimulate the senses of space and engage lines of sight"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Margins as laboratories of urban planning

Enclosures as topographies of vision

Windows as sites of visual disturbance

Walls as boundaries of the night.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107165144

1107165148

OCLC:

972394581