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Silent Poetry - Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France (Hardcover)
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Silent Poetry - Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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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 nineteenth-century school of
over one hundred deaf artists. Painters, sculptors, photographers,
and graphic artists all emanated from the Institute for the Deaf in
Paris, playing a central role in the vibrant deaf culture of the
period. With the rise of Darwinism, eugenics, and race science,
however, the deaf found themselves categorized as "savages,"
excluded and ignored by the hearing. This book is concerned with
the process and history of that marginalization, the constitution
of a "center" from which the abnormal could be excluded, and the
vital role of visual culture within this discourse. Based on
groundbreaking archival and pictorial research, Mirzoeff's exciting
and intertextual analysis of what he terms the "silent screen of
deafness" produces an alternative hIstory of nineteenth-century art
that challenges canonical view of the history of art, the
inheritance of the Enlightenment, and the functions, status, and
meanings of visual culture itself. Fusing methodologies from
cultural studies, poststructuralism and art history, his study will
be important for students and scholars of art history, cultural and
deaf studies, and the history of medicine, and will interest a
general audience concerned with the relationship of the deaf and
the larger society. Nicholas Mirzoeff is Assistant Professor of Art
History at the University of Wisconsin. Originally published in
1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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