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Sound, Image, Silence

Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World

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Michael Gaudio

Sound, Image, Silence provides a groundbreaking examination of the colonial Americas by exploring the special role that aural imagination played in visible representations of the New World. It masterfully fuses a diversity of work across vast social, cultural, and spatial distances, giving us both a new way of understanding sound in art and a powerful new vision of the New World.

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Background image, Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, 1836. Oil on canvas, 130.8 × 193 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1908 (08.228).

Table of Contents

  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Soundings
  • 1. “It Seems Their Voices Are Still in My Ears”: Picturing a Tupinambá Dance in 1592
  • 2. Frans Post’s Silent Landscapes
  • 3. Magical Pictures, or Observations on Lightning and Thunder, Occasion’d by a Portrait of Dr. Franklin
  • 4. At the Mouth of the Cave: Listening to Thomas Cole’s Kaaterskill Falls
  • 5. Dancing for the Kinetograph: The Lakota Ghost Dance and the Silence of Early Cinema
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Index
  • Color Plates

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Single Resources

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    Frontispiece to Histoire des Oracles

  • Pdf

    History of the Kinetograph

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    Frontispiece to Guérison de la paralysie par l’electricité

  • Interactive

    Buffalo Dance

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    Fort Ceulen on the Rio Grande

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    Title page to Navigatio in Brasiliam Americae

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    Frontispiece to Le mécanisme du fluteur automate

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    “Their danses which they vse att their hyghe feastes”

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    Tupinamba dancers

  • Interactive

    The Dickson Experimental Sound Film

24 Total Resources

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  • rights
    This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph System)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries—and the generous support of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Learn more at openmonographs.org.

    The publication of this book was supported by an Imagine Fund grant for the Arts, Design, and Humanities, an annual award from the University of Minnesota’s Provost Office.

    A different version of chapter 3 was previously published as “Magical Pictures, or, Observations on Lightning and Thunder, Occasion’d by a Portrait of Dr. Franklin,” in Picturing, ed. Rachael Ziady DeLue, Terra Foundation Essays 1 (Paris and Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2016; distributed by the University of Chicago Press). A different version of chapter 4 was previously published as “At the Mouth of the Cave: Listening to Thomas Cole’s Kaaterskill Falls,” Art History 33, no. 3 (June 2010): 448–65.

    Copyright 2019 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota

    Sound, Image, Silence: Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World by Michael Gaudio is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
  • edition
    1
  • isbn
    978-1-4529-6263-4
  • publisher
    University of Minnesota Press
  • publisher place
    Minneapolis, MN
  • restrictions
    Please see the Creative Commons website for details about the restrictions associated with the CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license.
  • rights holder
    Regents of the University of Minnesota
  • rights territory
    World
  • version
    1.0
  • doi
    https://doi.org/10.5749/9781452962634
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