The Full-Length Mirror A Global Visual History.

The Full-Length Mirror A Global Visual History.

"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 connection...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hung, Wu
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Québec : Reaktion Books, Limited, 2023.
Subjects:
Mirrors.
Mirrors > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prelude : a prehistory of the full-length mirror
  • Part one: object and reflection. From Versailles to the Forbidden City : the global invention of the full-length mirror
  • From the house of green delights to the hall of mental cultivation : mirror-screens in the literary and visual imagination
  • Part two: medium and subjectivity. From Europe to the world : the global circulation of full-length-mirror photography
  • From iconography to subjectivity : discovering the self in the full-length mirror
  • Coda : disenchantment of the full-length mirror.

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