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Silent Poetry
Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Scholars and students of art history, cultural studies, Deaf studies, and the history of medicine will find this work indispensable. It also appeals to readers interested in the social history of the Deaf and the intersections of art and marginalisation.
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
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This book explores the dynamic interaction between art and the sign language of the deaf in France from the philosophers to the introduction of the sound motion picture. Nicholas Mirzoeff shows how the French Revolution transformed the ancient régime 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 categorised as "savages," excluded and ignored by the hearing. This book is concerned with the process and history of that marginalisation, the constitution of a "centre" 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 the 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.
Silent Poetry was 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.
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ISBN: 9780691655567
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 January 2019
Country: United States
Imprint: Princeton University Press
Illustration: 77 halftones
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 203.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 336
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