On the viewing platform : the panorama between canvas and screen /
Trumpener, Katie and Barringer, Tim
On the viewing platform : the panorama between canvas and screen / Katie Trumpener, Tim Barringer. - 1st. - 313 p.; col, ill.;
Includes indexes (303)
"This ambitious volume presents a multifaceted account of the legacy of the circular painted panorama and its far-reaching influence on art, photography, film, and architecture. From its eighteenth-century origins, the panorama quickly became a global mass-cultural phenomenon, often linked to an imperial worldview. Yet it also transformed modes of viewing and exerted a lasting, visible impact on filmmaking techniques, museum displays, and contemporary installation art. On the Viewing Platform offers close readings of works ranging from proto-panoramic Renaissance cityscapes and nineteenth-century paintings and photographs to experimental films and a wide array of contemporary art. Extensively researched and spectacularly illustrated, this volume proposes an expansive new framework for understanding the histories of art, film, and spectatorship"--
9780300184792
2020936553
NK7420 / .TRU 2020
On the viewing platform : the panorama between canvas and screen / Katie Trumpener, Tim Barringer. - 1st. - 313 p.; col, ill.;
Includes indexes (303)
"This ambitious volume presents a multifaceted account of the legacy of the circular painted panorama and its far-reaching influence on art, photography, film, and architecture. From its eighteenth-century origins, the panorama quickly became a global mass-cultural phenomenon, often linked to an imperial worldview. Yet it also transformed modes of viewing and exerted a lasting, visible impact on filmmaking techniques, museum displays, and contemporary installation art. On the Viewing Platform offers close readings of works ranging from proto-panoramic Renaissance cityscapes and nineteenth-century paintings and photographs to experimental films and a wide array of contemporary art. Extensively researched and spectacularly illustrated, this volume proposes an expansive new framework for understanding the histories of art, film, and spectatorship"--
9780300184792
2020936553
NK7420 / .TRU 2020