ISBN:
9781107165144
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 188 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2017
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Katz, Dana E. The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Katz, Dana E. The Jewish ghetto and the visual imagination of early modern Venice
DDC:
720.945311
Keywords:
Architecture Italy
;
Venice
;
Jewish ghettos Italy
;
Venice
;
Architecture
;
Buildings
;
Jewish ghettos
;
Venice (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc
;
Italy
;
Venice
;
Architektur
;
Venedig
;
Getto
;
Architektur
;
Venedig
;
Getto
Abstract:
"The Jewish Ghetto and the Visual Imagination of Early Modern Venice is not a diachronic study of the ghetto's architectural development or microhistory of the masons who erected its tenements. Instead, this is a book about how the built landscape makes, in the words of W. J. T. Mitchell, "seeing show itself." I focus on everyday architectural elements in order to call attention to the vernacular vision of early modern Venice. I am interested in the exchange of gazes framed by ghetto architecture that expose how visuality shapes sociality. That is, I am interested in ways of seeing windows, walls, and gates that look through them to see how they actively inform society. Through a dissection of the ghetto's architectural anatomy, I parse its constituent elements to interrogate seeing as a mediator of urban experience. I analyze the details of construction and design to deconstruct how the ghetto's fenestration patterns, building heights, and enclosure walls stimulate the senses of space and engage lines of sight"--
Abstract:
Margins as laboratories of urban planning -- Enclosures as topographies of vision -- Windows as sites of visual disturbance -- Walls as boundaries of the night
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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