Transporting visions : the movement of images in early America /

Transporting visions' follows pictures as they traveled through and over the swamps, forests, towns, oceans, and rivers of British America and the U.S. between 1760 and 1860. Taking seriously the complications involved in moving pictures through the physical world, the sheer bulk and weight of...

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Main Author: Roberts, Jennifer L., 1969-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2014]
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505 0 |a Introduction : long-distance pictures -- Dilemmas of delivery in Copley's Atlantic -- Audubon's burden : materiality and transmission in the Birds of America -- Gathering moss : Asher B. Durand and the deceleration of landscape -- Epilogue : material visual culture. 
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