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The Jewish ghetto and the visual imagination of early modern Venice /

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9781107165144

9781316616901

The Jewish ghetto and the visual imagination of early modern Venice /

[Book]

Dana E. Katz.

New York, NY :

Cambridge University Press,

2017.

©2017

xiii, 188 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-182) and index.

Margins as laboratories of urban planning -- Enclosures as topographies of vision -- Windows as sites of visual disturbance -- Walls as boundaries of the night.

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"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"--

Architecture-- Italy-- Venice.

Jewish ghettos-- Italy-- Venice.

Architecture-- Italie.

Architecture.

Buildings.

Getto

Jewish ghettos.

Juden

Quartiers juifs-- Italie.

Wahrnehmung

Venice (Italy), Buildings, structures, etc.

Italy, Venice.

Venedig

Venise (Italie), Ghetto.

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