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Visualizing the text : from manuscript culture to the age of caricature /
This volume presents in-depth and contextualized analyses of a wealth of visual materials. The images included in the book provide readers with a mesmerizing and informative glimpse into how the early modern world was interpreted by image-makers and presented to viewers during a period that spans fr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newark, Delaware :
University of Delaware Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Representing space : book culture, visual perspectivism, and intercultural communication
- Compiling creation : medieval codicology and images of early modern collection / by Janine Rogers
- Cosmography and perspectivism : Alonso de Fuentes's Summa de philosophia natural, its illustrations, and Cervantes's Don Quixote / by Rachel Schmidt
- The development of mixed pictographic-alphabetic accounting documents in colonial Mexico / by Cecilia Brain
- Part II. Annotating the image : Baroque painting, news maps, and print captions
- Annotation and books in early modern Spanish painting / by Lauren Beck
- Visualizing the news : the Amsterdam spin-doctor Claes Jansz Visscher and the West India Company / by Michiel van Groesen
- Text on image on text : picturing "nature" in Schall's illustrations for Rousseau's Julie, ou, La nouvelle Héloïse / by Ann Lewis
- Part III. Imagining empirical knowledge : illustrated travelogues, natural history treatises, and geological texts
- Description and representation in Oviedo's and Staden's travel accounts of the New World / by Sandra Sáenz-López Pérez
- Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton's anatomic descriptions complemented by Jacques de Sève's drawings : the hidden scientific gem of Buffon's Histoire naturelle / by Swann Paradis
- From analogies to patterns : images in French and British geological texts (1760-1800) / by David McCallam
- Part IV. Illustrating the text : engraved exotica, traces of reading, and satirical books
- Dialectic of/on foreignness : textual and iconographic representations of the faraway in the Histoire générale des voyages by Abbé Prévost / by Antoine Eche
- Illustrating for posterity : modes of readership in the eighteenth-century literary marketplace / by Leigh G. Dillard
- "Caricature untrammelled" : Thomas Tegg's illustrated satirical books / by Christina Smylitopoulos.