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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524692603321

Autore

Gaudio Michael

Titolo

Sound, Image, Silence : Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World / / Michael Gaudio

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, USA, : University of Minnesota Press, 2019

©2019

ISBN

1-4529-6089-5

Edizione

[1.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, xviii, 195 pages. 12 unnumbered pages of plates :) : illustrations (some color) ;

Disciplina

700.973

Soggetti

Visual perception in art

Communication in art

Arts, American

Communication in art - America

Electronic books.

America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Sound, Image, Silence explores how, over the course of three centuries, paintings, photographs and early silent films communicated the sounds and silences found in the New World to white audiences on the European continent. Through the representation of both landscapes and indigenous people, book explores the role of aural imagination as it pertains to the visualization of particular episodes of colonialism and oppression, but also tries to think seriously about how art historians should engage with sound in what is inherently a "mute" medium"--