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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, 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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 imagination. Many are familiar with the Claude glass as a small black convex mirror used by artists and spectators of landscape to reflect a view and make tonal values and areas  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Arnaud Maillet
ISBN: 9781890951481 189095148X
OCLC Number: 262881427
Language Note: Translated from the French.
Notes: Originally published: 2004.
Description: 306 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Prolegomena --
Definitions: characteristics and aspects --
Problems of naming --
Problems of historical sources: the disappearing mirror --
A suspicious mirror --
Demoniac mirrors --
Catoptromancy --
Magnetism, hypnotism --
Disquiet --
Fascination --
A reductive mirror --
Regarding the eye and the visual field --
A reductive mirror: regarding tonality --
A seductive and deceptive mirror --
An idealizing mirror --
Limits on the use of the Claude mirror --
Toward deception and beyond --
A devaluing mirror --
Devaluation --
Abstraction(s) --
An irremediable loss.
Other Titles: Miroir de Claude.
Responsibility: Arnaud Maillet ; translated by Jeff Fort.

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A study of a largely forgotten optical device and its relation to notions of opacity, transparency, and imagination.  Read more...

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