The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art

In this first full-length study of a largely forgotten optical device from the eighteenth century, Arnaud Maillet...
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The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art by Maillet, Arnaud

The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art

BD$34.52

The Claude Glass: Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art

BD$34.52
Author: Arnaud Maillet
Format: Paperback
Language: English

In this first full-length study of a largely forgotten optical device from the eighteenth century, Arnaud Maillet reconfigures our historical understanding of visual experience and meaning in relation to notions of opacity, transparency, and imagination. Many are familiar with the Claude glass as a small black convex mirror used by artists and spectators of landscape to reflect a view and make tonal values and areas of light and shade visible.

In a groundbreaking account, Maillet goes well beyond this particular function of the glass and situates it within a richer archaeology of Western thought, exploring the uncertainties and anxieties about mirrors, reflections, and their potential distortions. He takes us from the magical and occult background of the "black mirror," through a full evaluation of its importance in the age of the picturesque, to its persistence in a range of technological and representational practices, including photography, film, and contemporary art. The Claude Glass is a lasting contribution to the history of Western visual culture.

Author: Arnaud Maillet
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 04/17/2009
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.02w x 0.93d
ISBN: 9781890951481
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/15/2009 pg. 95

About the Author

Arnaud Maillet is an art historian who received his doctorate at the University of Paris I. The Claude Glass is his first book.


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