Mr. Collier's Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age - Tapa dura

Wahrman, Dror

 
9780199738861: Mr. Collier's Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
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ISBN 10: 0199738866 ISBN 13: 9780199738861
Editorial: OUP USA, 2012

Sinopsis

For 300 years, a unique and complex artistic puzzle has been hidden, the solution of which reveals an extraordinary critique of what can be described as the first modern media revolution. The mind behind this puzzle was a Dutch/British still-life painter named Edward Collier. Working around 1700, Collier has been neglected, even forgotten, precisely because his secret messages have never been noticed, let alone understood. Until now. In this book, Dror Wahrman recovers the tale of an extraordinary illusionist artist who engaged in a wholly original way with a major transformation of his generation: an unprecedented explosion in cheap print - newspapers, pamphlets, informational publications, artistic prints - that was produced for immediate release and far-flung circulation faster and in larger quantities that ever before. Edward Collier developed a secret language within his still-life paintings - replete with minutely coded messages, witty games, intricate allusions, and private jokes - in order to draw attention to the potential and the pitfalls of this new information age, uncannily prefiguring the modern perspectives of the media-savvy 21st century. This heretofore obscure artist embedded in his paintings an ingenious commentary on the media revolution of his period, on the birth of modern politics, and on art itself.

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

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Editorial
OUP USA
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0199738866
ISBN 13 
9780199738861
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
288
Contacto del fabricante
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Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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