Mr. Collier's letter racks : a tale of art & illusion at the threshold of the modern information age
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.
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275 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780199738861, 0199738866
813232892
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Introduction: Puzzles ; Chapter 1: Print 2.0 c. 1700: A New Media Regime ; Chapter 2: Life Not Still ; Chapter 3: The Nature of Print ; Chapter 4: Marking Time ; Chapter 5: Monarchy in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction ; Chapter 6: Eye Con ; Chapter 7: A Man with an Impossible Temper ; Chapter 8: Tom, Dick, and Henry ; Chapter 9: The Collier Club? ; Chapter 10: Death of the Author? ; Chapter 11: Which Revolution? Or the Memory of Mr. Lory ; Chapter 12: A Signature Gone Wild ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Acknowledgments ; Index
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