Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America

by Jennifer Roberts

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0520251849

ISBN13:9780520251847

Release Date:January 2014

Publisher:University of California Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 7.2" x 10.2"

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Art Arts, Music & Photography

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