More than meets the eye : the magic of the panorama / editor, Gabriele Koller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koller, Gabriele, editor.

International Panorama Council, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Panoramas--History.

Panoramas.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, map, portraits ; 22 x 31 cm

Other Title:

Magic of the panorama

Place of Publication:

Amberg, Germany : Büro Wilhelm Verlag, [2019]

Summary:

"More than Meets the Eye - The Magic of the Panorama is a publication of the International Panorama Council edited by Gabriele Koller. It includes essays by 29 authors who take a look at the panorama phenomenon from different angles and perspectives - all of them united by the fascination with the magic of the art form which offers more than meets the eye." --https://panoramacouncil.org/

Contents:

Preface / Sara Velas, Seth Thompson

Introduction / Gabriele Koller

A growing community : a brief history of the International Panorama Council / Patrick Deicher

A GLOBAL PHENOMENON

"Picturesque promenades around the world" : the cosmorama and its cultural context / Erkki Huhtamo

Eclipsing the sublime porte : directed perception in the European and Asian panoramas of Constantinople of 1801 / Denise Blake Oleksijczuk

Panoramas and dioramas in Turkey and their predecessors in the late Ottoman Empire / Patrizia Kern

The artistic diorama in Russia (1829-1970s) : an overview / Alexey Druzhinin

Innovation an delevation in the panorama in China / Ji Yunhui

A virtual tour of Japanese panorama halls fro Fukuoka to Fukushima / Machiko Kusahara

Un'opera brasiliana in quattro atti : panoramas of Rio de Janeiro / Thiago Leitao de Souza

A Battle of Gettysburg cyclorama shown in Australia and New Zealand, 1906-1907 / Mimi Colligan

European capitalists / American panoramas / Suzanne Wray

THE PANORAMA AS SPECTACLE

Pergamon hype and Pergamon party : Pergamon panormams in Berlin, 1886 and 2011 / Stephan Oettermann

London to Hong Kong in two hours : a Victorian moving panorama / Ralph Hyde

John Lamb Primus and John Lamb Secundus : the artists of London to Hong Kong in two hours / David Brill

On the grand moving mirror of California at the Velaslavasay panorama / Sara Velas

Crankies : reinventing the moving panorama as contemporary folk art / Sue Truman

THE PANORAMIC PERCEPTION

The magic of the panorama : the story of one who set forth to teach drawing / Yadegar Asisi

Sound environments for panoramic paintings / Moritz Fehr

Inside the fortress : the panorama of the Luxembourg City Museum / Guy Thewes, Antoine Fontaine

PANORAMAS AND RELIGION

Experiencing Jerusalem in Altotting : panoramas and pilgrimage / Gabriele Koller

Jersalem visualized : a Jerusalem panorama in Amsterdam / Sylvia Alting van Geusau

Unrolling a "new" nineteenth-century moving panorama : scenes from the Life of Christ / Molly Catherine Briggs

PANORAMAS AND WAR

Yankees in Georgia? How the Battle of Atlanta cyclorama became a Confederate icon / Gordon L. Jones

Researching in battlefields : how exact was the panorama painters' work? / Michael Kutzer

The studio of military artists names after M.B. Grekov / Lyubov Proshina

A war panorama without a battle : the Bourbaki panorama in Lucerne / Patrick Deicher

THE PANORAMIC FORMAT

Cultural heritage through the lens of the panorama : painted and digital panoramic re-presentations of Versailles / Seth Thompson

City-rama : looking in/looking out : panoramic inspirations at the Queens Museum, New York / Blagovesta Momchedjikova

Anamorphic Americana / Gregory Kahn Melitonov, Kelly Pyle

About the authors

International Panorama Council conferences, 1992-2019.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783948137083

3948137080

OCLC:

1128275677

Publisher Number:

9783948137083