Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 188 pages)
,
illustrations
ISBN:
1316752070
,
1316754006
,
9781316752074
,
9781316754009
Inhalt:
"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"--
Inhalt:
Margins as laboratories of urban planning -- Enclosures as topographies of vision -- Windows as sites of visual disturbance -- Walls as boundaries of the night.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Weitere Ausg.:
9781316691526
Weitere Ausg.:
1316691527
Weitere Ausg.:
9781316616901
Weitere Ausg.:
1316616908
Weitere Ausg.:
9781107165144
Weitere Ausg.:
1107165148
Weitere Ausg.:
9781316730843
Weitere Ausg.:
1316730840
Weitere Ausg.:
9781107165144
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Katz, Dana E Jewish ghetto and the visual imagination of early modern Venice
Sprache:
Englisch
