The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art by Arnaud Maillet

The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art

Zone Books

Arnaud Maillet with Jeff Fort (Translator)

312 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction art informative reflective medium-paced

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In this first full-length study of a largely forgotten optical device from the eighteenth century, Arnaud Maillet reconfigures our historical understanding of visual experience and meaning in relation to notions of opacity, transparency, and imagi...

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