Overview
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.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781789146103
- ISBN-10: 1789146100
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publish Date: January 2023
- Dimensions: 8.51 x 6.55 x 0.85 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.61 pounds
- Page Count: 288
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