The Claude Glass - Table of Contents

October 2004
6 x 9, 300 pp., 36 illus.
$32.95/£24.95 (CLOTH)
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ISBN-10:
1-890951-47-1
ISBN-13:
978-1-890951-47-4

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From Zone Books:
The Claude Glass
Use and Meaning of the Black Mirror in Western Art
Arnaud Maillet
Translated by Jeff Fort

	Acknowledgments	9

	Part One: Prolegomena

I	Definitions: Characteristics and Aspects	15

II	Problems of Naming	27

III	Problems of Historical Sources: The Disappearing Mirror	37

	Part Two: A Suspicious Mirror

IV	Demoniac Mirrors	47

V	Catoptromancy	57

VI	Magnetism, Hypnotism	61

VII	Disquiet	67

VIII	Fascination	77

	Part Three: A Reductive Mirror

IX	Regarding the Eye and the Visual Field	85

X	A Reductive Mirror: Regarding Tonality	103

	Part Four: A Seductive and Deceptive Mirror

XI	An Idealizing Mirror	137

XII	Limits on the Use of the Claude Mirror	147

XIII	Toward Deception and Beyond	167

	Part Five: A Devaluing Mirror

XIV	Devaluation	187

XV	Abstraction(s)	203

XVI	An Irremediable Loss	211

	Notes	223

	Index	289

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