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Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
The Month, a view of passing subjects and manners, by A. Smith & J. Leech. July-Dec. 1851
Author: Book and Library Sales Catalogues
Author: Sotheby & Co. (London, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 926
Book Description
Catalogue of Autographs, Etc
Author: Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, LondonPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
English Literature of the 19th and 20th Centuries
Author: Maggs BrosPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Catalogues of Items for Auction by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, 1840-1870
Author: P.J. & A.E. Dobell Book Sale Catalogs
Author: P.J. & A.E. Dobell (Firm)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Illusions in Motion
Author: Erkki HuhtamoPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262547546
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.
