The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History by Hung, Wu

The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789146103)

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Format: Hardcover
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The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History by Hung, Wu

The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History

$50.00
The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History by Hung, Wu

The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History

$50.00
Format: Hardcover
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Beautifully illustrated, a stirring and wide-ranging reflection on art, technology, culture--and the full-length mirror.

This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. One story, through time and space, crisscrosses the globe to introduce a broad range of historical actors: kings and slaves, artists and writers, merchants and craftsmen, courtesans, and commoners. The other story explores the connections among objects, painting, and photography, the full-length mirror providing a new perspective on historical artifacts and their images in art and visual culture. The Full-Length Mirror represents a new kind of global art history in which "global" is understood in terms of both geography and visual medium, a history encompassing Europe, Asia, and North America, and spanning over two millennia from the fourth century BCE to the early twentieth century.

Author: Wu Hung
ISBN-10: 1789146100
ISBN-13: 9781789146103
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Language: English
Published: 01/13/2023
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 8.51h x 6.55w x 0.85d
By Wu Hung
By Wu Hung
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Wu Hung is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. His many books include A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture and Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China, both also published by Reaktion Books.

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