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Author Wahrman, Dror

Title Mr. Collier's letter racks : a tale of art and illusion at the threshold of the modern information age / Dror Wahrman
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012

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Contents Introduction: puzzles -- Print 2.0 c. 1700: a new media regime -- Life not still -- The nature of print -- Marking time -- Monarchy in the age of mechanical reproduction -- Eye con -- A man with an impossible temper -- Tom, Dick, and Henry -- The Collier club? -- Death of the author? -- Which revolution? or, The memory of Mr. Lory -- A signature gone wild
Summary Three hundred years ago, an unprecedented explosion in inexpensive, disposable print--newspapers, pamphlets, informational publications, artistic prints--ushered in a media revolution that forever changed our relationship to information. One unusually perceptive man, an obscure Dutch/British still life painter named Edward Collier, understood the full significance of these momentous changes and embedded in his work secret warnings about the inescapable slippages between author and print, meaning and text, viewer and canvas, perception and reality. Working around 1700, Collier has been neglected
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Collier, Edward, active 17th century -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Collier, Edward, active 17th century fast
Collier, Edwaert 1640-1707 gnd
Subject Trompe l'oeil painting -- Netherlands
Art and society -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century
Newspapers in art.
ART -- History -- General.
Art and society
Newspapers in art
Trompe l'oeil painting
Trompe-l'oeil
Zeitung
Netherlands
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011042929
ISBN 9780199876372
0199876371
1280595922
9781280595929
9780199910960
0199910960
9786613625755
6613625752
Other Titles Mister Collier's letter racks