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Author Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 1962-

Title Silent poetry : deafness, sign, and visual culture in modern France / Nicholas Mirzoeff
Published Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1995]
©1995

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Description xiv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
Contents Sign Wars. The Art of Signing -- 1. Ancient Gestures, Modern Signs. French Ancients and Moderns. The Deaf in the Harem. The Deafness of the Ancients. Philosophy and the Sign. Sign at the Salon. Signs of Revolution -- 2. Signs and Citizens. Regeneration and the Deaf. The Politics of Deafness. The Normal and the Pathological. David's Studio and the Deaf -- 3. The Mimicry of Mimesis. Morality, Sign, and Pathology. Mimicry, Copying, and Originality. Revolt and Organization. Cultural Politics. A Culture of Gestures. Mimicry and Mimesis -- 4. Visualizing Anthropology. Touch, the Hand, and Gesture. Evolutionism, Art, and the Sign. The Silent Monument. Milan and After -- 5. A Deaf Variety of Modernism? Republican Morality. The Deaf Artists and the Museum. Gesture and Hysteria. Deaf Republicans. Deaf Artists and the Third Republic. The Deaf and the Dreyfus Affair. Eugenics and the Deaf. Deaf Moderns. Anthropology and Philosophy. Art History. Deaf Culture
Analysis Deaf persons Sign languages History
France
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-309) and index
Notes English
Subject Art, French -- France -- History -- Means of communication -- 19th century
Art, French -- 19th century.
Art, French.
Deaf artists -- 19th century.
Deaf -- History -- 19th century.
Deaf -- Means of communication -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Sign language -- History -- 19th century -- France.
Deaf artists -- France -- History -- 19th century.
Sign language -- History -- 19th century.
Author American Council of Learned Societies.
LC no. 94042545
ISBN 0691037892 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ABBREV TI SILENT POETRY
SILENT POETRY: DEAFNESS, SIGN, & VISUAL CULTURE IN MODERN FRANCE
OTHER TI ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2012023082