Transporting Visions

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-520-25184-7
Verlag: University Of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 262 mm, Gewicht: 808 g

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 James Audubon, and Asher B. Durand—which were designed with mobility in mind—Roberts shows how an analysis of such imagery opens new perspectives on the most fundamental problems of early American commodity circulation, geographic expansion, and social cohesion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roberts, Jennifer L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Künstlerische Stoffe, Motive, Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Long-Distance Pictures

1. Dilemmas of Delivery in Copley’s Atlantic

2. Audubon’s Burden: Materiality and Transmission in The Birds of America

3. Gathering Moss: Asher B. Durand and the Deceleration of Landscape

Epilogue: Material Visual Culture

Notes

Selected Bibliography

List of Illustrations

Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.