Commerce of Vision - Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America

Peter John Brownlee is Curator at the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Table des matières

Introduction. An Ocular Age: Vision in a World of Surfaces

PART I. THE PROBLEM OF VISION

Chapter 1. Ophthalmology, Popular Physiology, and the Market Revolution in Vision

Chapter 2. Vision, Eyewear, and the Art of Refraction

PART II. THE CHAOS OF PRINT

Chapter 3. Broadsides, Display Types, and the Physiology of the Moving Eye

Chapter 4. Signboards, Vision, and Commerce in the Antebellum City

PART III. PAINTING, PRINT, PERCEPTION

Chapter 5. The Optics of Newspaper Vision

Chapter 6. Paper Money, Spectral Illusions, and the Limits of Vision

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

A propos de l'auteur

Peter John Brownlee

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Peter Brownlee, Peter John Brownlee
• Edition: University of pennsylvania pr
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780812250428
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-5042-8
• Pages: 277
• Thèmes: Early American Studies; Early American Studies
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire par région/pays; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Médias, communication > Sciences de la communication