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The Claude glass : use and meaning of the black mirror in western art
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The Claude glass : use and meaning of the black mirror in western art

Author: Arnaud Maillet
Publisher: New York : Zone Books, 2004.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Arnaud Maillet
ISBN: 1890951471 9781890951474
OCLC Number: 55016164
Description: 300 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Definitions : characteristics and aspects -- Problems of naming -- Problems of historical sources : the disappearing mirror -- Demoniac mirrors -- Catoptromancy -- Magnetism, hypnotism -- Disquiet -- Fascination -- Regarding the eye and the visual field -- A reductive mirror : regarding tonality -- An idealizing mirror -- Limits on the use of the Claude mirror -- Toward deception and beyond -- Devaluation -- Abstraction(s) -- An irremediable loss.
Other Titles: Miroir de Claude.
Responsibility: Arnaud Maillet ; translated by Jeff Fort.

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