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Category : Panoramas
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A Description of the Royal Colosseum, Re-opened in MDCCCXLV, Under the Patronage of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, and His Royal Highness Prince Albert : Re-embellished in 1848
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panoramas
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Panoramas
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Panoramania!
Author: Ralph Hyde
Publisher: Conran Octopus
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher: Conran Octopus
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Canvas Documentaries
Author: Mimi Colligan
Publisher: Melbourne University Publish
ISBN: 9780522850192
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Long before cinema was invented, people went to picture shows. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain, Europe and America they were treated to dramatic pictorial spectacles. Audiences might be encircled by vast 360-degree canvases, or seated before continuous images drawn across a proscenium, or gathered in amusement parks to watch painted 3-D structures come 'alive' with the explosion of fireworks overhead. The sense of realism was enhanced by back-lighting, running commentaries and props such as real sand and trees. Canvas Documentaries captures the artistic, civic and social preoccupations of the times. Generously illustrated with paintings, etchings, engravings, mechanical drawings, architectural plans, photographs and advertising material, this beautiful book is a window on the vibrant popular culture of the Victorian era.
Publisher: Melbourne University Publish
ISBN: 9780522850192
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Long before cinema was invented, people went to picture shows. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Britain, Europe and America they were treated to dramatic pictorial spectacles. Audiences might be encircled by vast 360-degree canvases, or seated before continuous images drawn across a proscenium, or gathered in amusement parks to watch painted 3-D structures come 'alive' with the explosion of fireworks overhead. The sense of realism was enhanced by back-lighting, running commentaries and props such as real sand and trees. Canvas Documentaries captures the artistic, civic and social preoccupations of the times. Generously illustrated with paintings, etchings, engravings, mechanical drawings, architectural plans, photographs and advertising material, this beautiful book is a window on the vibrant popular culture of the Victorian era.
Harlequin in His Element
Author: David Mayer
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674429864
Category : Harlequin (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674429864
Category : Harlequin (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Views and Viewmakers of Urban America
Author: John William Reps
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826204163
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
ISBN: 0826204163
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Union list catalog of the lithographic views of cities and towns made during the 19th century.
Dictionary Of Modern Art
Author: Matthew Baigell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429688709
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Alphabetically arranged and crossreferenced entries provide background information on major American painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers, plus important topics and movements central to American art from the sixteenth century to the present.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0429688709
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Alphabetically arranged and crossreferenced entries provide background information on major American painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers, plus important topics and movements central to American art from the sixteenth century to the present.
The Shows of London
Author: Richard Daniel Altick
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674807310
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
History of London entertainment from 1600 to the end of the 1850's.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674807310
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
History of London entertainment from 1600 to the end of the 1850's.
The Lost Panoramas of the Mississippi
Author: John Francis McDermott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"The panorama was a ... newsreel travelogue documentary 'movie' all rolled into one long, long, pictorial canvas between two slowly revolving cylinders ... [to the] acccompaniment of explanatory narration by the panoramist, passed the great river, its banks and bluffs, its steamers and squatters' shacks, its hamlets and cities, from St. Paul to New Orleans." Dust jacket.
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Category : Mississippi River
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"The panorama was a ... newsreel travelogue documentary 'movie' all rolled into one long, long, pictorial canvas between two slowly revolving cylinders ... [to the] acccompaniment of explanatory narration by the panoramist, passed the great river, its banks and bluffs, its steamers and squatters' shacks, its hamlets and cities, from St. Paul to New Orleans." Dust jacket.
Illusions in Motion
Author: Erkki Huhtamo
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262018519
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.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262018519
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.
Poole's Myriorama!
Author: Hudson John Powell
Publisher: Ex Libris Press
ISBN:
Category : Carnival
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Drawing strongly on contemporary sources and illustrated with over 50 pictures this book provides an authoritative account of the history of the showmen and their contemporaries. It maps the history of the spectral opera shows developed by the Poole brothers and Anthony Young.
Publisher: Ex Libris Press
ISBN:
Category : Carnival
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Drawing strongly on contemporary sources and illustrated with over 50 pictures this book provides an authoritative account of the history of the showmen and their contemporaries. It maps the history of the spectral opera shows developed by the Poole brothers and Anthony Young.