The panorama : history of a mass medium / Stephan Oettermann ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider.

Main entry:

Oettermann, Stephan, 1949-

Title & Author:

The panorama : history of a mass medium / Stephan Oettermann ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider.

Publication:

New York : Zone Books, 1997.

Description:

407 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm

Series:

NOOMA ; 021

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-401) and index.
The origins of the panorama -- Technical features of the panorama and its offshoots -- The panorama in England -- The panorama in France -- The panorama in Germany -- The panorama in Austria -- The panorama in the United States -- Existing panoramas.
Translated from the German.

Summary:

"The significance of panorama painting in the nineteenth century is frequently cited in contemporary debates about visuality and the emergence of the modern spectator. Stephan Oettermann's The Panorama is the first major historical study to appear in English of the rich phenomenon of the panorama, one of the most influential forms of visual entertainment in the nineteenth century. In this richly illustrated book Oettermann gives readers a concrete sense of the structural and experiential reality of the panorama, and the many forms it took throughout Europe and North America--a crucial task given that very few of the original nineteenth-century panoramas survive. At the same time, he outlines the many ways in which these remarkable and often immense 360-degree images were part of a larger transformation of the status of the observer and of popular culture. Thus, the panorama is treated not only as a new kind of image but also as an architectural and informational component of the new urban spaces and media networks."--Amazon.com.

ISBN:

0942299833
9780942299830

Subject:

Panoramas.
Rotundas.
Panoramas (Art)
Rotondes.
panoramas (visual works)
21.19 painting: other.
Panorama's (schilderkunst)
1787-1899

Form/genre:

Panoramas.
works of art.
Art
Œuvres d'art.

Added entries:

NOOMA. She ; 021.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 191798
Call No.: ID ND2880.O3713; ID:97-B2814
Status: Available

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