Silent Poetry : Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France.

Silent Poetry : Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France.

This book explores the dynamic interaction between art and the sign language of the deaf in France from the philsopheRs to the introduction of the sound motion picture. Nicholas Mirzoeff shows how the French Revolution transformed the ancienT regime metaphor of painting as silent poetry into a ninet...

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Main Author: Mirzoeff, Nicholas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2019.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Sign language > History > 19th century.
Art, French > 19th century.
Deaf people > Means of communication > France > History > 19th century.
Deaf people artists > France > History > 19th century.
Deaf artists > France > History > 19th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
ART > History > General.
Art, French
Deaf artists
Deaf > Means of communication
Sign language
France
History
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