Silent poetry / Nicholas Mirzoeff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mirzoeff, Nicholas, author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Princeton Legacy Library ; 5245

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sign language--History--19th century.

Sign language.

Art, French--19th century.

Art, French.

Deaf artists--France--History--19th century.

Deaf artists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Universtiy Press, 2019.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 "savages," excluded and ignored by the hearing. This book is concerned with the process and history of that marginalization, the constitution of a "center" 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 "silent screen of deafness" 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION

1. ANCIENT GESTURES, MODERN SIGNS

2. SIGNS AND CITIZENS

3. THE MIMICRY OF MIMESIS

4. VISUALIZING ANTHROPOLOGY

5. A DEAF VARIETY OF MODERNISM?

EPILOGUE

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-309) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Sep 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691037899

0691037892

9781400821792

1400821797

9780691194509

0691194505

OCLC:

1079006653