Book Review: Madame Tussaud and the History of Waxworks
In: European history quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 1, p. 169-170
ISSN: 1461-7110
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In: European history quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 1, p. 169-170
ISSN: 1461-7110
In: Social history of medicine, Volume 8, Issue 3, p. 361-381
ISSN: 1477-4666
In: Social history of medicine, Volume 4, Issue 1, p. 170-b-171
ISSN: 1477-4666
In: Social history of medicine, Volume 3, Issue 1, p. 89-99
ISSN: 1477-4666
In: History workshop: a journal of socialist and feminist historians, Volume 28, Issue 1, p. 39-52
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: Social history of medicine, Volume 2, Issue 3, p. 370-a-370
ISSN: 1477-4666
In: Social history of medicine, Volume 1, Issue 2, p. 229-230
ISSN: 1477-4666
Bringing together a fascinatingly diverse yet closely related group of subjects, Where Words and Images Meet asks us to rethink what we know about words and images and how they interact. From 19th-century frontispieces to Soviet photo albums, from the relationships between portraits and biographies to museum labels, the book's richly illustrated chapters open up historically specific connections between word and image to collective examination and fruitful analysis. Written by both established and emerging scholars in a range of interrelated fields, the chapters deliberately foreground previously overlooked topics as well as unfamiliar disciplinary approaches, to offer a stimulating and carefully developed framework for looking at these ubiquitous phenomena afresh. Where Words and Images Meet opens up for analysis and reflection the forms of attention, practices, skills and assumptions that underlie visual interpretation and meaning-making in the writing of history. By bringing the features of the materials we read and look at into focus, we can grasp more effectively the complex interrelationships involved, and enhance our practice and understanding
In: Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, Volume 20, Issue 4, p. 557
In: The women's review of books, Volume 7, Issue 6, p. 13
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Volume 7, Issue 1, p. 181-230
ISSN: 1467-9981