On the Viewing Platform: The Panorama between Canvas and Screen - Hardcover

Trumpener, Katie; Barringer, Tim

 
9780300184792: On the Viewing Platform: The Panorama between Canvas and Screen
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300184794 ISBN 13: 9780300184792
Publisher: Yale University Press, 2020

Synopsis

A wide-ranging study of the painted panorama’s influence on art, photography, and film

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 18th-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 19th-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.

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About the Author

Katie Trumpener is Emily Sanford Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor in the History of Art, both at Yale University.

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Publisher
Yale University Press
Publication date
2020
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0300184794
ISBN 13 
9780300184792
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
324