Michael Shamansky, Bookseller Inc.
Importer of European Publications in the Fine Arts
P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 Phone: 845-331-8519 Email: mshamans@artbooks.com

Item Number: 115036
Title: Vertiginous mirrors : The animation of the visual image and early modern travel
Author: San Juan, Rose Marie
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780719084812
Description: Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2011. 24cm., hardcover, 242pp. illus., 8 color plates. Summary: In early modern Europe, the visual image began to move, not only as it traveled across great distances but also due to the introduction of innovative visual formats that produced animation within the image itself. This book traces the arduous journeys of visual images through evidence of their use and reproduction along missionary routes from Europe to India, Japan, China, Brazil and Chile. It argues that missionary world travel was crucial to the early modern re-animation of the image through devices such as the reflection of the mirror, the multiple registers of vision of the anthropomorphic image, the imaginative and disorienting possibilities of the utopic image, and even the reconstitution of the sacred image with memories of the relation of travel to life and death. These journeys produced a new kind of visual image, one closely related to the changing experience of the human body, including its extension through new technologies. A crucial point of reference is the legendary 1540s travels across south Asia of Jesuit Saint Francis Xavier, whose burial in Goa and ultimate failure to return to Europe became a provocation not only for subsequent missionary travel but also for a new conceptualization of the visual image. Within the journeys traced in the book, the visual image forged new connections between different locations and across different cultures, accumulating increasingly entangled histories. Even more intriguingly, these images frequently returned to Europe, changed but still recognizable, there to be used again with an awareness of their earlier travels. Contents: I. Travel and the re-animation of the image ; II. Resemblance between proximity and distance 1. The anthropomorphic image: negotiations of space between body and landscape 2. The imperfect replica: departures and arrivals from Naples to Nagasaki 3.The visionary image: the return of the image from Brazil to Rome 4. The utopic Image: unsettling circuits between Chile and Rome ; Epilogue: The proliferation of the body: Francis Xavier in Goa. (Rethinking Art's Histories)

We regret to inform you that this title is no longer available.
Please contact us if you need additional assistance.


Michael Shamansky, Bookseller Inc.
P.O. Box 3904, Kingston, New York 12402 US
Phone: 845-331-8519
Fax: 845-331-0852
Email: michael@artbooks.com

© Copyright 1996-2013 Michael Shamansky, Bookseller Inc.
Design & Hosting by Ives & Shaughnessy Web Information Services