| Description |
306 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Prolegomena -- Definitions: characteristics and aspects -- Problems of naming -- Problems of historical sources: the disappearing mirror -- A suspicious mirror -- Demoniac mirrors -- Catoptromancy -- Magnetism, hypnotism -- Disquiet -- Fascination -- A reductive mirror -- Regarding the eye and the visual field -- A reductive mirror: regarding tonality -- A seductive and deceptive mirror -- An idealizing mirror -- Limits on the use of the Claude mirror -- Toward deception and beyond -- A devaluing mirror -- Devaluation -- Abstraction(s) -- An irremediable loss |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Originally published: 2004 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the French |
| Subject |
Claude glasses.
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Landscape painting -- Technique.
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Reflection (Optics)
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| ISBN |
189095148X (paperback) |
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9781890951481 (paperback) |
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