Rose Marie San Juan

Vertiginous Mirrors

The animation of the visual image and early modern travel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces world journeys of early modern visual images from Europe to distant parts of the world - India, Japan, China, Brazil, Chile - and their return, altered but still recognizable, and ready to be reused with an awareness of their recent travels.

Produktdetails

• Rethinking Art's Histories
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 759g
• ISBN-13: 9780719084812
• ISBN-10: 0719084814
• Artikelnr.: 33154744

Autorenporträt

Rose Marie San Juan is Reader in History of Art at University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of illustrations Introduction: Dying to see I. Travel
and the re-animation of the image II. Resemblance between proximity and
distance 1. The anthropomorphic image: negotiations of space between body
and landscape 2. The imperfect replica: departures and arrivals from Naples
to Nagasaki 3.The visionary image: the return of the image from Brazil to
Rome 4. The utopic Image: unsettling circuits between Chile and Rome
Epilogue: The proliferation of the body: Francis Xavier in Goa Bibliography
Index