Item Number: 116081 Title: Seeing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World Author: Leibsohn, Dana ; Jeanette Favrot Peterson (eds) Price: Not Available ISBN: 9781409411895 Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2012. 24cm., hardcover, 265pp., 18 color, 69 b&w illus. Contents: Contents: Preface; Introduction – geographies of sight, Dana Leibsohn; Part I Perspective and Mimesis: Perspective and its discontents or St Lucy's eyes, Yoriko Kobayashi-Sato and Mia Mochizuki; Perceiving blackness, envisioning power: Chalma and Black Christs in colonial Mexico, Jeanette Favrot Peterson; Competing and complementary visions of the court of the Great Mogor, Saleema Waraich. Part II Blindness and Memory: Visual knowledge/facing blindness, Bronwen Wilson; Blindness materialized: disease, decay, and restoration in the Napoleonic Description de l'Egypte (1809–1828), Liza Oliver; Gone: memory and visuality in early modern West Africa, Mark Hinchman. Part III Colonial Visualities: Without a face: voicing Moctezuma II's image at Chapultepec Park, Mexico City, Patrick Hajovsky; Markers: Le Moyne de Morgues in 16th-century Florida, Todd P. Olsen; Tourism, occupancy and visuality in North India, 1750–1858, Natasha Eaton. Part IV Seeing Across Time: Understanding visuality, Claire Farago. (Transculturalisms, 1400-1700) We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available. P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US Phone: 845-331-8519 Fax: 845-331-0852 Email: michael@artbooks.com |
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