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Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America
Jennifer L. Roberts
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Description for Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America
Hardback. Taking seriously the complications involved in moving pictures through the physical world - the sheer bulk and weight of artworks, the long delays inherent in long-distance reception, the uneasy mingling of artworks with other kinds of things in transit, the author forges a model for a material history of visual communication in early America. Num Pages: 240 pages, 25 color, 50 b/w. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 263 x 184 x 19. Weight in Grams: 808.
Transporting Visions follows pictures as they traveled through and over the swamps, forests, towns, oceans, and rivers of British America and the United States between 1760 and 1860. Taking seriously the complications involved in moving pictures through the physical world--the sheer bulk and weight of canvases, the delays inherent in long-distance reception, the perpetual threat to the stability and mnemonic capacity of images, the uneasy mingling of artworks with other kinds of things in transit--Jennifer L. Roberts forges a model for a material history of visual communication in early America. Focusing on paintings and prints by John Singleton Copley, John ... Read more
Transporting Visions follows pictures as they traveled through and over the swamps, forests, towns, oceans, and rivers of British America and the United States between 1760 and 1860. Taking seriously the complications involved in moving pictures through the physical world--the sheer bulk and weight of canvases, the delays inherent in long-distance reception, the perpetual threat to the stability and mnemonic capacity of images, the uneasy mingling of artworks with other kinds of things in transit--Jennifer L. Roberts forges a model for a material history of visual communication in early America. Focusing on paintings and prints by John Singleton Copley, John ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
807g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520251847
SKU
V9780520251847
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About Jennifer L. Roberts
Jennifer L. Roberts is Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. She teaches American art from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on issues of landscape, expedition, material culture theory, and the history of science, and is the author of Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History.
Reviews for Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America
"Seamlessly written, well illustrated, and a model for scholarly inquiry in other periods of art history." CHOICE "A rich text ... fascinating analysis."
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