
Mr. Collier's Letter Racks
A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
Dror Wahrman(Autor*in)
Oxford University Press Inc
1. Auflage
Erschienen am 22. November 2012
Buch
Hardcover
288 Seiten
978-0-19-973886-1 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
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.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Wahrman guides the reader through the details of the evidence as he finds it on dozens of canvases and, where possible, in Dutch archives with such a sure hand that most readers will not feel that a better story is possible.... * Journal of Modern History *Weitere Details
Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
New York
USA
Zielgruppe
Für höhere Schule und Studium
Cultural history, art history
Illustrationen
100 color
Maße
Höhe: 240 mm
Breite: 161 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
Gewicht
593 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-973886-1 (9780199738861)
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Mr. Collier's Letter Racks
A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
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Dror Wahrman
Mr. Collier's Letter Racks
A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
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08/2012
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Ruth N. Halls Professor of History, Indiana University and Professor of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Autor*in
Ruth N. Halls Professor of HistoryRuth N. Halls Professor of History, Indiana University
Inhalt
Introduction: Puzzles ; Chapter 1: Print 2.0 c. 1700: A New Media Regime ; Chapter 2: Life Not Still ; Chapter 3: The Nature of Print ; Chapter 4: Marking Time ; Chapter 5: Monarchy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ; Chapter 6: Eye Con ; Chapter 7: A Man with an Impossible Temper ; Chapter 8: Tom, Dick, and Henry ; Chapter 9: The Collier Club? ; Chapter 10: Death of the Author? ; Chapter 11: Which Revolution? Or the Memory of Mr. Lory ; Chapter 12: A Signature Gone Wild ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Acknowledgments ; Index