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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In very good, unmarked condition. Cover is good with slightly bumped corners and very light soiling. Your purchase benefits world-wide relief efforts of Mennonite Central Committee.
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Good. Good condition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket. A Very Good copy of this tall-format well-illustrated paperback. Sound binding, clean/unmarked within, with a crease to the top corner of the rear cover. (Not ex-library. ) Laid in are two copies of a folding brochure for the exhibition, a separate brochure noted as for mailing to potential classroom groups, and a large Washington Post review of the exhibit dated December 29, 2000.
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Near fine. Illustrated. 277pp., 4to, stiff printed wrappers. Carlisile: Trout Gallery, Dickinson College, with the participation of The Folger Shakespeare Library, (2000). A veery near fine copy. Contributions by Brain P. Copenhaver, Martin Kemp, Sachiko Kusukawa, Susan Forscher Weiss.