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The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History

The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History

The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History

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by Wu Hung (Author) 

Beautifully illustrated, a stirring and wide-ranging reflection on art, technology, culture—and the full-length mirror.

This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. One story, through time and space, crisscrosses the globe to introduce a broad range of historical actors: kings and slaves, artists and writers, merchants and craftsmen, courtesans, and commoners. The other story explores the connections among objects, painting, and photography, the full-length mirror providing a new perspective on historical artifacts and their images in art and visual culture. The Full-Length Mirror represents a new kind of global art history in which “global” is understood in terms of both geography and visual medium, a history encompassing Europe, Asia, and North America, and spanning over two millennia from the fourth century BCE to the early twentieth century.

Year 2022
Pages 272
Language English
Format PDF
Size 36 MB
ISBN-10 1789146100
ISBN-13 9781789146103, 978-1789146103
ASIN B0BKL92QBM