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This text focuses on the hand as a meeting place for matter, mind, and spirit. More than 80 images, dating primarily from the 15th to the 17th centuries, concern the acquisition and dissemination of knowledge from such diverse realms as anatomy, psychology, mathematics, music rhetoric, religions, palmistry, and alchemy. The book also addresses the relationship between the hand and the brain, sensory perception, the rhetoric of gesture, early forms of finger-spelling for the deaf, morality, and spirituality. It reintroduces early modern conceptual frameworks for learning, remembering, and recalling practical and abstract concepts by means of the hand. Throughout the text, images of the hand play a vital role in interpreting the search for achieving knowledge of the self and interpreting universal human experience.
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Writing on Hands : Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Trout Gallery, Dickinson College / Folger Shakespeare Library / University of Washington Press, Carlisle, PA / Washington, DC / Seattle, WA, 2000
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Softcover. Condition: VG. Light shelfwear. Quarto. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 277 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pa., Sept. 8-Nov. 25, 2000, and at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., Dec. 13, 2000-Mar. 4, 2001./ Design credits provided by AIGA Design Archives./ Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-269) and indexes. Seller Inventory # 214299
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Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Broschiert / Paperback. Condition: Sehr gut. 277 S. : zahlr. Abb. ; 31 cm. In good condition. - Contents -- Foreword and Acknowledgments of The Trout Gallerys Director -- Foreword of The Folger Shakespeare Librarys Director -- Curators Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Claire Richter Sherman -- The Handy Worke of the Incomprehensible Creator -- Martin Kemp -- A Manual Computer for Reckoning Time Sachiko Kusukawa -- The Singing Hand -- Susan Forscher Weiss -- A Show of Hands -- Brian P. Copenhaver -- Catalogue of Works -- Prefatory Notes -- i. Reading the Writing on Hands -- Mentor, Metaphor, and Map: Cat. 1-4 -- Identity, Intelligence, and Creativity: Cat. 5-10 -- n. The Handiwork of the Creator -- The Noblest Creation: Cat. 11-16 -- The Instrument of Instruments: Cat. 17-25 -- in. Messengers of the World -- The Sense of Touch: Cat. 26-33 -- Inscribing Memory: Cat. 34-39 -- iv. Knowledge on Hand -- Manipulating Time: Cat. 40-45 -- Steps to Singing: Cat.46-50 -- Companion of Eloquence: Cat. 51-56 -- v. The Whole World in the Hand -- The Body as Microcosm: Cat. 57-62 -- Signs upon the Hand: Cat. 63-68 -- The Hand of the Philosopher: Cat. 69-73 -- vi. Guiding Hands -- Defenders of Faith: Cat. 74-78 -- Guardians of Morals: Cat. 79-83. ISBN 0295980729 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1260. Seller Inventory # 1198273
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Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Edition Unstated. Size: 4to. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. An exhibition catalogue for an exhibition at The Trout Gallery, Dickinson College and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C. Color illustrated wraps, 277 pages, Bibliography of Frequently Cited Sources, Index of Authors and Their Works, Index of Artists, illustrated black-and-white. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3 lbs 12 oz. Category: Art & Design; Exhibition Catalogue; Books; ISBN: 0295980729. ISBN/EAN: 9780295980720. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 009754. Seller Inventory # 009754