Title The Jewish Ghetto and the visual imagination of early modern Venice / Dana E. Katz

Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017 ©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 188 pages) : illustrations Contents Margins as laboratories of urban planning -- Enclosures as topographies of vision -- Windows as sites of visual disturbance -- Walls as boundaries of the night Summary "The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice is not a diachronic study of the ghetto's architectural development or microhistory of the masons who erected its tenements. Instead, this is a book about how the built landscape makes, in the words of W.J.T. Mitchell, "seeing show itself." I focus on everyday architectural elements in order to call attention to the vernacular vision of early modern Venice. I am interested in the exchange of gazes framed by ghetto architecture that expose how visuality shapes sociality. That is, I am interested in ways of seeing windows, walls, and gates that look through them to see how they actively inform society. Through a dissection of the ghetto's architectural anatomy, I parse its constituent elements to interrogate seeing as a mediator of urban experience. I analyze the details of construction and design to deconstruct how the ghetto's fenestration patterns, building heights, and enclosure walls stimulate the senses of space and engage lines of sight"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record. **USUALLY MAKE THIS THE LAST NOTE** Subject Architecture -- Italy -- Venice Jewish ghettos -- Italy -- Venice ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation. ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments. ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice. ARCHITECTURE -- Reference. Architecture Jewish ghettos SUBJECT Venice (Italy) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85142720 Subject Italy -- Venice Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316752074 1316752070 9781316754009 1316754006 9781316691526 1316691527 9781316616901 1316616908

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