“A history of the mirror is really the history of looking, and what we perceive in these magical surfaces can tell us a great deal about ourselves – whence we have come, what we imagine, how we think, and what we yearn for. The mirror appears throughout the human drama as a means of self-knowledge or self-delusion”
(Pendergast, 2003, p. ix)
Pendergrast, M. (2003). Mirror: A history of the human love affair with reflection. New York, NY: Basic Books.
In week 1 of learning about the mirror, we learnt about multiple different things. We learnt about the ‘black mirror’.
The first ever known mirror in Mesoamerica.
The black mirror has also been used in popular movies such as ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass’. There is also an award winning Netflix series called ‘Black Mirror’. Named after the black mirror in which is your phone.
It is also prominent in 1500’s paintings.
The money changer and his wife’, 1514 by the Flemish renaissance artist Queen Matsys. The Arnolfini Portrait, 1434 by Jan Van Eyck.
Below- A Claud glass.
Olivia Burrough 