{"product_id":"vertiginous-mirrors-9780719084812","title":"Vertiginous Mirrors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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. -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eVertiginous Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e 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.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOxford Art Journal \u003c\/i\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSan 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVertiginous 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is full of fascinating, if densely packed observations and a creative use of sources...\u003c\/p\u003e -- .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Dying to see \u003cbr\u003eI. Travel and the re-animation of the image\u003cbr\u003eII. Resemblance between proximity and distance\u003cbr\u003e1. The anthropomorphic image: negotiations of space between body and landscape\u003cbr\u003e2. The imperfect replica: departures and arrivals from Naples to Nagasaki\u003cbr\u003e3.The visionary image: the return of the image from Brazil to Rome\u003cbr\u003e4. The utopic Image: unsettling circuits between Chile and Rome\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: The proliferation of the body: Francis Xavier in Goa\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037331652951,"sku":"9780719084812","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780719084812.jpg?v=1750935330","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vertiginous-mirrors-9780719084812","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}