Sound, Image, Silence : Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World / Michael Gaudio.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Minneapolis, USA University of Minnesota Press 2019Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©2019Edition: 1Description: 1 online resource (224 pages): illustrations (some color)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781452960890
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Summary: "Sound, Image, Silence explores how, over the course of three centuries, paintings, photographs and early silent films communicated the sounds and silences found in the New World to white audiences on the European continent. Through the representation of both landscapes and indigenous people, book explores the role of aural imagination as it pertains to the visualization of particular episodes of colonialism and oppression, but also tries to think seriously about how art historians should engage with sound in what is inherently a "mute" medium"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Sound, Image, Silence explores how, over the course of three centuries, paintings, photographs and early silent films communicated the sounds and silences found in the New World to white audiences on the European continent. Through the representation of both landscapes and indigenous people, book explores the role of aural imagination as it pertains to the visualization of particular episodes of colonialism and oppression, but also tries to think seriously about how art historians should engage with sound in what is inherently a "mute" medium"-- Provided by publisher.

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