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Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France

Silent Poetry: Deafness, Sign, and Visual Culture in Modern France

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 5245

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ISBN10: 0691656983
ISBN13: 9780691656984
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Jan 15 2019
Pages: 320
Weight: 2.00
Height: 0.75 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

This book explores the dynamic interaction between art and the sign language of the deaf in France from the philsopheRs to the introduction of the sound motion picture. Nicholas Mirzoeff shows how the French Revolution transformed the ancienT regime metaphor of painting as silent poetry into a nineteenth-century school of over one hundred deaf artists. Painters, sculptors, photographers, and graphic artists all emanated from the Institute for the Deaf in Paris, playing a central role in the vibrant deaf culture of the period. With the rise of Darwinism, eugenics, and race science, however, the deaf found themselves categorized as savages, excluded and ignored by the hearing. This book is concerned with the process and history of that marginalization, the constitution of a center from which the abnormal could be excluded, and the vital role of visual culture within this discourse.

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