On the Viewing Platform : The Panorama between Canvas and Screen, Hardback Book

On the Viewing Platform : The Panorama between Canvas and Screen Hardback

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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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