The full-length mirror : a global visual history /
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Author / Creator: | Wu Hung, 1945- author. |
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Imprint: | London : Reaktion Books, 2022. ©2022 India : Replika Press |
Description: | 271 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12963373 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Prelude
- A Prehistory of the Full-Length Mirror
- Part 1. Object and Reflection
- 1. From Versailles to the Forbidden City
- The Global Invention of the Full-Length Mirror
- 2. From the House of Green Delights to the Hall of Mental Cultivation
- Mirror-Screens in the Literary and Visual Imagination
- Part 2. Medium and Subjectivity
- 3. From Europe to the World
- The Global Circulation of Full-Length-Mirror Photography
- 4. From Iconography to Subjectivity
- Discovering the Self in the Full-Length Mirror
- Coda
- Disenchantment of the Full-Length Mirror
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index