The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History
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.
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The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History
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.
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The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History

The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History

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

The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History

by Wu Hung

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781789146110
Publisher: Reaktion Books, Limited
Publication date: 11/28/2022
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 288
File size: 43 MB
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About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Prelude: A Prehistory of the Full-Length Mirror Part One: Object and Reflection One: From Versailles to the Forbidden City: The Global Invention of the Full-Length Mirror Two: From the House of Green Delights to the Hall of Mental Cultivation: Mirror-Screens in the Literary and Visual Imagination Part Two: Medium and Subjectivity Three: From Europe to the World: The Global Circulation of Full-Length-Mirror Photography Four: From Iconography to Subjectivity: Discovering the Self in the Full-Length Mirror Coda: Disenchantment of the Full-Length Mirror References Select Bibliography Photo Acknowledgements Index
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