Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen by Frances Terpak, Isotta Poggi, Barbara Maria Stafford

Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen

Frances Terpak, Isotta Poggi, Barbara Maria Stafford

400 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction art history informative reflective medium-paced
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An inquiry into emergent media's rich lineage, Devices of Wonder explores the artful machines humans have used to augment visual perception. The encyclopedic cabinet of curiosities serves as a model for this study of the archaic instruments lurkin...

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