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Sound, Image, Silence - Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World (Paperback, 1)
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Sound, Image, Silence - Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World (Paperback, 1)
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A visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of
colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly
"silent" images Colonial depictions of the North and South American
landscape and its indigenous inhabitants fundamentally transformed
the European imagination-but how did those images reach Europe, and
how did they make their impact? In Sound, Image, Silence, noted art
historian Michael Gaudio provides a groundbreaking examination of
the colonial Americas by exploring the special role that aural
imagination played in visible representations of the New World.
Considering a diverse body of images that cover four hundred years
of Atlantic history, Sound, Image, Silence addresses an important
need within art history: to give hearing its due as a sense that
can inform our understanding of images. Gaudio locates the noise of
the pagan dance, the discord of battle, the din of revivalist
religion, and the sublime sounds of nature in the Americas, such as
lightning, thunder, and the waterfall. He invites readers to listen
to visual media that seem deceptively couched in silence, offering
bold new ideas on how art historians can engage with sound in
inherently "mute" media. Sound, Image, Silence includes readings of
Brazilian landscapes by the Dutch painter Frans Post, a London
portrait of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison's early Kinetoscope
film Sioux Ghost Dance, and the work of Thomas Cole, founder of the
Hudson River School of American landscape painting. It masterfully
fuses a diversity of work across vast social, cultural, and spatial
distances, giving us both a new way of understanding sound in art
and a powerful new vision of the New World.
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