The Full-Length Mirror

A Global Visual History

The Full-Length Mirror
Wu Hung
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NZ$ 74.99
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NZ$ 59.99
Hardback
h208 x 156mm - 288pg
17 Oct 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781789146103
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This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. One story, through time and space, crisscrosses the globe to introduce a broad range of historical actors: kings and slaves, artists and writers, merchants and craftsmen, courtesans and commoners. The other story explores the connections between object, painting and photography, the full-length mirror providing a new perspective on historical artefacts and their images in art and visual culture. The Full-Length Mirror represents a new kind of global art history in which ' global' is understood in terms of both geography and visual medium, a history encompassing Europe, Asia and North America, and spanning over two millennia from the fourth century BCE to the early twentieth century. ' As has been the case with the numerous other books Wu Hung has offered us, The Full-Length Mirror is a significant work that aptly displays his original ideas, lucid writing and unparalleled erudition: no full-length mirror will ever be large enough to reflect the towering presence and shadow he has marked on art history and Sinology. ' - J. P. Park, June and Simon Li Professor in the History of Art, University of Oxford
Wu Hung is Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. His many books include A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture (Reaktion, 2011) and Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China (Reaktion, 2016).

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