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About This Book
Beautifully illustrated, a stirring and wide-ranging reflection on art, technology, cultureāand 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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Prelude
- Part One: Object and reflection
- Part Two: Medium and subjectivity
- Coda
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index