Sound, Image, Silence Art and the Aural Imagination in the Atlantic World

A visionary new approach to the Americas during the age of colonization, made by engaging with the aural aspects of supposedly "silent" images Colonial depictions of the North and South American landscape and its indigenous inhabitants fundamentally transformed the European imagination-but...

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Main Author: Gaudio, Michael (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: University of Minnesota Press 2019
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