Dror Wahrman (Ruth N. Halls Pro Ruth N. Halls Professor of History

Mr. Collier's Letter Racks

A Tale of Art & Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age

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Produktbeschreibung

Uncovers an artistic puzzle in the illusionist paintings by Edward Collier, a Dutch-British still-life painter who moved to London at the end of the seventeenth century and encoded a sophisticated critique of the information revolution that ushered in the modern information age.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP USA / Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 168mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 843g
• ISBN-13: 9780199738861
• ISBN-10: 0199738866
• Artikelnr.: 34929640

Autorenporträt

Ruth N. Halls Professor of History, Indiana University and Professor of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Puzzles
Chapter 1: Print 2.0 c. 1700: A New Media Regime
Chapter 2: Life Not Still
Chapter 3: The Nature of Print
Chapter 4: Marking Time
Chapter 5: Monarchy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Chapter 6: Eye Con
Chapter 7: A Man with an Impossible Temper
Chapter 8: Tom, Dick, and Henry
Chapter 9: The Collier Club?
Chapter 10: Death of the Author?
Chapter 11: Which Revolution? Or the Memory of Mr. Lory
Chapter 12: A Signature Gone Wild
Epilogue
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index