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This book explores the dynamic interaction between art and the sign language of the deaf in France from the philsopheRs to the introduction of the sound motion picture. Nicholas Mirzoeff shows how the French Revolution transformed the ancienT regime metaphor of painting as silent poetry into a nineteenth-century school of over one hundred deaf artists. Painters, sculptors, photographers, and graphic artists all emanated from the Institute for the Deaf in Paris, playing a central role in the vibrant deaf culture of the period. With the rise of Darwinism, eugenics, and race science, however, the deaf found themselves categorized as'savages,'excluded and ignored by the hearing. This book is concerned with the process and history of that marginalization, the constitution of a'center'from which the abnormal could be excluded, and the vital role of visual culture within this discourse.Based on groundbreaking archival and pictorial research, Mirzoeff's exciting and intertextual analysis of what he terms the'silent screen of deafness'produces an alternative hIstory of nineteenth-century art that challenges canonical view of the history of art, the inheritance of the Enlightenment, and the

Author

Nicholas Mirzoeff; American Council of Learned Societies

Publisher

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691656984

Subjects

History, Sociology, Social Science