Writing on Hands 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 ...
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Writing on Hands 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. In addition to the introduction by Claire Richter Sherman, there are essays by renowned scholars Brian P. Copenhaver, Martin Kemp, Sachiko Kusukawa, and Susan Forscher Weiss.
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Add this copy of Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern to cart. $49.00, very good condition, Sold by Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Marietta, PA, UNITED STATES, published 2000 by Trout Gallery, Dickinson College / Folger Shakespeare Library / Univ. of....
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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.
Add this copy of Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern to cart. $127.02, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Diego, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Trout Gallery/Folger Shakespeare Library.
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Add this copy of Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern to cart. $232.00, new condition, Sold by Books and More by the Rowe rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bella Vista, AR, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Trout Gallery of Dickinson College.
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New. New. No dust jacket as issued. BRAND NEW. Mint condition. Never read or opened. No remainder mark. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 300 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade.
Add this copy of Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern to cart. $1,983.00, new condition, Sold by BWS Bks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ferndale, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2001 by Univ of Washington Pr.
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New. 0295980729. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT---AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY-Light bumping with creasing to corner, else flawless. --with a bonus offer--
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New. *** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request ***-*** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT-BRAND NEW, FLAWLESS COPY, NEVER OPENED--300 pages-BONUS PRESS KIT PREPARED BY EXHIBITION ORGANIZERS; clean and crisp, tight and bright pages, with no writing or markings to the text. --DESCRIPTION: Writing on Hands 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. In addition to the introduction by Claire Richter Sherman, there are essays by renowned scholars Brian P. Copenhaver, Martin Kemp, Sachiko Kusukawa, and Susan Forscher Weiss. -REVIEW: "Focusing on really fine art by such masters as Rembrandt, Albrecht Durer, Lucas van Leyden, Leonardo da Vinci and a host of anonymous but highly accomplished creators, this exhibition catalogue (for a show at Dickinson College's Trout Gallery in Pennsylvania and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C. ) reveals the Middle Ages' dependence on the human hand for everything from arithmetic to music, not to mention fortune-telling. Edited by art historian Sherman (Imagining Aristotle), the essays and catalogue entries combine erudition with accessibility. Sachiko Kusukawa, a research fellow in the history and philosophy of science at Trinity College, Cambridge, contributes a particularly lucid and intriguing chapter describing a hugely important treatise on "finger-reckoning" written by the English historian Bede (c. 673-735). Martin Kemp, a professor of art history at Oxford and recognized authority on the art of Leonardo da Vinci, also contributes a useful short chapter on anatomical art, while Brian P. Copenhaver, professor of history and philosophy at UCLA, provides a somewhat more abstruse essay on divination through use of the hands. Generally, though, academic-speak is kept to a friendly minimum, given the remote nature of the subject. For its excellent, hundred-plus reproductions of etchings and engravings and intriguing focus, this well-thought-out book will be attractive for all larger art history collections, while the cover will attract the digitally curious to higher-end display tables."-Publishers Weekly--with a bonus offer--; 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
