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Book SynopsisThis book traces world journeys of early modern visual images from Europe to distant parts of the world - India, Japan, China, Brazil, Chile - and their return, altered but still recognizable, and ready to be reused with an awareness of their recent travels. -- .
Trade Review‘Vertiginous Mirrors has been published in Manchester University Press’s ‘Rethinking Art’s Histories’ series, and indeed the book is a powerful contribution towards that rethinking. San Juan introduces a radical contingency into our sense of the past by treating the early modern image as a site of potential animation without resolution, and as a result the ‘early modern’ itself becomes a site of openness and possibility.’
Oxford Art Journal
San Juan introduces a radical contingency into our sense of the past by treating the early modern image as a site of potential animation without resolution, and as a result the 'early modern' itself becomes a site of openness and possibility.
Vertiginous Mirrors is a deeply original, provocative and sometimes brilliant rethinking of the status of the visual image in early modern Europe. Her readings of seventeeth-century Jesuit imagery convincingly make the case that, in order to get to the truths we seek so far afield, we should learn to travel with images.
This volume is full of fascinating, if densely packed observations and a creative use of sources...
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
List of illustrations
Introduction: Dying to see
I. Travel and the re-animation of the image
II. Resemblance between proximity and distance
1. The anthropomorphic image: negotiations of space between body and landscape
2. The imperfect replica: departures and arrivals from Naples to Nagasaki
3.The visionary image: the return of the image from Brazil to Rome
4. The utopic Image: unsettling circuits between Chile and Rome
Epilogue: The proliferation of the body: Francis Xavier in Goa
Bibliography
Index
