The Jewish ghetto and the visual imagination of early modern Venice:

"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,...

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1. Verfasser: Katz, Dana E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY Cambridge University Press [2017]
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Zusammenfassung:"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"...
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xiii, 188 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781107165144

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