# The Full-Length Mirror: A Global Visual History - Hardcover

by **Wu Hung** (Author)

**Beautifully illustrated, a stirring and wide-ranging reflection on art, technology, culture--and the full-length mirror.**

This book tells two stories about the full-length mirror. One story, through time and space, crisscrosses the globe to introduce a broad range of historical actors: kings and slaves, artists and writers, merchants and craftsmen, courtesans, and commoners. The other story explores the connections among objects, painting, and photography, the full-length mirror providing a new perspective on historical artifacts and their images in art and visual culture. _The Full-Length Mirror_ represents a new kind of global art history in which "global" is understood in terms of both geography and visual medium, a history encompassing Europe, Asia, and North America, and spanning over two millennia from the fourth century BCE to the early twentieth century.

### Author Biography

**Wu Hung** is the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. His many books include _A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture_ and _Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China_, both also published by Reaktion Books.

**Number of Pages:** 288

**Dimensions:** 0.85 x 8.51 x 6.55 IN

**Publication Date:** January 13, 2023

## Details

- **Price:** 54.0 USD
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