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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Light wear on jacket edge with rubbing on jacket panels.: 288 pages.

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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: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
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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.