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

Wahrman, Dror

ISBN 10: 0199738866 / ISBN 13: 9780199738861

Published by Oxford University Press, 2012

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NOTE that this s an uncorrected advance reading copy. SOFT COVER/no dj; VERY GOOD 263pp. Has 'Aug' written and underlined on front cover. Please email w/questions or to request picture(s); refer to our book inventory number. Free media mail shipping. LOC white shelf 3.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mr. Collier's Letter Racks: A Tale of Art and Illusion at the Threshold of the Modern Information Age
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199738866
• ISBN 13: 9780199738861
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
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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.

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.