Katz, Dana E., author.

The Jewish ghetto and the visual imagination of early modern Venice / Dana E. Katz.

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
©2017

xiii, 188 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

9781107165144 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1107165148 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781316616901 (paperback)
1316616908 (paperback)

Architecture Italy Venice.
Jewish ghettos Italy Venice.
Architecture Italie Venise.
Ghettos Italie Venise.
Architecture.
Buildings.
Jewish ghettos.
Getto
Juden
Wahrnehmung
Architecture Italie.
Quartiers juifs Italie.
Venice (Italy) Buildings, structures, etc.
Italy Venice.
Venedig
Venise (Italie) Ghetto.

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 298913
Cote: BIB 245028
Statut: Disponible