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Author Katz, Dana E., author.

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

Publication Info. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 188 pages) : illustrations
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Margins as laboratories of urban planning -- Enclosures as topographies of vision -- Windows as sites of visual disturbance -- Walls as boundaries of the night.
Summary "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
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Subject Architecture -- Italy -- Venice.
Architecture.
Italy -- Venice.
Jewish ghettos -- Italy -- Venice.
Jewish ghettos.
Venice (Italy) -- History.
ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation.
ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments.
ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice.
ARCHITECTURE -- Reference.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Katz, Dana E. Jewish ghetto and the visual imagination of early modern Venice 9781107165144 (DLC) 2017009665 (OCoLC)972394581
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