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

by Arnaud Maillet

Book Overview

A study of a largely forgotten optical device and its relation to notions of opacity, transparency, and imagination.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890951471
• ISBN13: 9781890951474
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher