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Silent poetry : deafness, sign, and visual culture in modern France / Nicholas Mirzoeff
by Mirzoeff, Nicholas (1962-)
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- ISBN 13
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1995. 1st edition. Hardcover. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; (xiv, 317 p. ) ill. Contents; Sign wars -- The Art of signing -- Ancient gestures, modern signs -- French ancients and moderns -- The Deaf in the harem -- The Deafness of the ancients -- Philosophy and the sign -- Sign at the salon -- Signs of the revolution -- Signs and Citizens : Regeneration and the Deaf -- The Politics of Deafness -- The Normal and the pathological -- David's studio and the Deaf -- The Mimicry of mimesis : Morality, sign and pathology -- Mimicry, copying and orginality -- Revolt and organization -- Cultural politics -- A Culture of gestures -- Mimicry and mimesis -- Visualizing Anthropology : Touch, the hand and gesture -- Evolutionism, art, and the sign -- The Silent monument -- Milan and after. A Deaf Variety of Modernism? : Republican morality -- The Deaf artists and the museum -- Gesture and hysteria -- Deaf Republicans -- Deaf artists and the Third Republic -- The Deaf and the Dreyfus Affair -- Eugenics and the Deaf -- Deaf moderns -- Anthropology and philosophy -- Art history -- Deaf culture. Subjects; 19th century. 1800-1899. Sign language History 19th century. Art, French 19th century. Deaf Means of communication France History 19th century. Deaf artists France History 19th century. Sign language History 19th century France. Art, French History Means of communication 19th century France. Deaf History 19th century. Deaf artists 19th century. Social Welfare & Social Work. Social Sciences. Disabilities. Art, French. Art, French 19th century. Deaf Means of communication France History 19th century. Deaf artists France History 19th century. Sign language History 19th century.
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- Title
- Silent poetry : deafness, sign, and visual culture in modern France / Nicholas Mirzoeff
- Author
- Mirzoeff, Nicholas (1962-)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0691037892
- ISBN 13
- 9780691037899
- Publisher
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Georgetown, On, Canada
- Date Published
- 1995
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