Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 188 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Architecture -- Italy -- Venice.
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Architecture. |
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Italy -- Venice. |
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Jewish ghettos -- Italy -- Venice.
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Jewish ghettos. |
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Venice (Italy) -- History.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Adaptive Reuse & Renovation. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Landmarks & Monuments. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- Professional Practice. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- Reference. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Katz, Dana E. Jewish ghetto and the visual imagination of early modern Venice 9781107165144 (DLC) 2017009665 (OCoLC)972394581 |
ISBN |
9781316752074 (electronic book) |
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1316752070 (electronic book) |
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9781316754009 (electronic book) |
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1316754006 (electronic book) |
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9781316691526 (ebook) |
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1316691527 |
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9781316616901 (paperback) |
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1316616908 |
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9781107165144 (print) |
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1107165148 (print) |
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9781316730843 (print) |
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1316730840 (print) |
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