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Mr. Collier´s Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
Dror Wahrman
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Description for Mr. Collier´s Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
Hardback. Uncovers an artistic puzzle in the illusionist paintings by Edward Collier, a Dutch-British still-life painter who moved to London at the end of the seventeenth century and encoded a sophisticated critique of the information revolution that ushered in the modern information age. Num Pages: 288 pages, 100 color. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JD; ACQ; AFC; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 846.
For 300 years, a unique and complex artistic puzzle has been hidden, the solution of which reveals an extraordinary critique of what can be described as the first modern media revolution. The mind behind this puzzle was a Dutch/British still-life painter named Edward Collier. Working around 1700, Collier has been neglected, even forgotten, precisely because his secret messages have never been noticed, let alone understood. Until now. In this book, Dror Wahrman recovers the tale of an extraordinary illusionist artist who engaged in a wholly original way with a major transformation of his generation: an unprecedented explosion in cheap print ... Read more
For 300 years, a unique and complex artistic puzzle has been hidden, the solution of which reveals an extraordinary critique of what can be described as the first modern media revolution. The mind behind this puzzle was a Dutch/British still-life painter named Edward Collier. Working around 1700, Collier has been neglected, even forgotten, precisely because his secret messages have never been noticed, let alone understood. Until now. In this book, Dror Wahrman recovers the tale of an extraordinary illusionist artist who engaged in a wholly original way with a major transformation of his generation: an unprecedented explosion in cheap print ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Number of pages
352
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780199738861
SKU
V9780199738861
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About Dror Wahrman
Ruth N. Halls Professor of History, Indiana University and Professor of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Reviews for Mr. Collier´s Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
Wahrman guides the reader through the details of the evidence as he finds it on dozens of canvases and, where possible, in Dutch archives with such a sure hand that most readers will not feel that a better story is possible....
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