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Mr. Collier's Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age - Hardcover

Wahrman, Dror

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9780199738861: Mr. Collier's Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age

Synopsis

Uncovers an artistic puzzle in the illusionist paintings by Edward Collier, a Dutch-British still-life painter who moved to London at the end of the seventeenth century and encoded a sophisticated critique of the information revolution that ushered in the modern information age.

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About the Author

Dror Wahrman is Ruth N. Halls Professor of History at Indiana University and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of The Making of the Modern Self and of Imagining the Middle Class.

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