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The panorama : history of a mass medium / Stephan Oettermann ; translated by Deborah Lucas Schneider.
LIBRA ND2880 .O3713 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oettermann, Stephan, 1949-
- Standardized Title:
- Panorama. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Panoramas.
- Physical Description:
- 407 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Zone Books, 1997.
- Summary:
- The first major historical study to appear in English of the rich phenomenon of the panorama, one of the most influential forms of visual entertainment in the 19th century. In this richly illustrated book, scholar Stephan Oettermann gives readers a concrete sense of the structural and experiential reality of the panorama and of the many forms it took throughout Europe and North America. 176 illustrations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-401) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0942299833
- OCLC:
- 35016550
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