Description |
xiv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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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 |
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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
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Art, French -- 19th century.
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Art, French.
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Deaf artists -- 19th century.
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Deaf -- History -- 19th century.
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Deaf -- Means of communication -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Sign language -- History -- 19th century -- France.
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Deaf artists -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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Sign language -- History -- 19th century.
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Author |
American Council of Learned Societies.
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LC no. |
94042545 |
ISBN |
0691037892 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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