Main entry:

Maillet, Arnaud.

Title & Author:

The Claude glass : use and meaning of the black mirror in western art / Arnaud Maillet ; translated by Jeff Fort.

Publication:

New York : Zone Books, 2004.

Description:

300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-287) and index.
Definitions : characteristics and aspects -- Problems of naming -- Problems of historical sources : the disappearing mirror -- Demoniac mirrors -- Catoptromancy -- Magnetism, hypnotism -- Disquiet -- Fascination -- Regarding the eye and the visual field -- A reductive mirror : regarding tonality -- An idealizing mirror -- Limits on the use of the Claude mirror -- Toward deception and beyond -- Devaluation -- Abstraction(s) -- An irremediable loss.
Translated from the French.

Summary:

"Arnaud Maillet's The Claude Glass is a contribution to the history of Western visual culture. In this first full-length study of a largely forgotten optical device from the eighteenth-century, 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. Maillet, in this account, 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.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

1890951471
9781890951474
9781890951481
189095148X

Subject:

Claude glasses.
Landscape painting Technique.
Reflection (Optics)
Miroirs de Claude.
Peinture de paysages Technique.
Réflexion (Optique)
reflections (perceived properties)
Hohlspiegel
Kunst
Landschaftsmalerei
Malmaterial
Maltechnik
Optisches Instrument
Schwarz
Spiegel
Spiegelung
Schilderkunst.
Landschapschilderkunst.
Fotografie.
Spiegels.
Visuele illusies.
Visuele waarneming.
Miroir de Claude (Matériel d'artiste)
Peinture de paysage.
Spiegel <Motiv>

Added entries:

Fort, Jeff, 1966- translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 233503
Call No.: ND1505 .M35 2004
Status: Available