Before photography : German visual culture in the nineteenth century / edited by Kirsten Belgum, Vance Byrd and John D. Benjamin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Belgum, Kirsten, 1959- editor.

Byrd, Vance, editor.

Benjamin, John D., editor.

Series:

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; Volume 29.

Interdisciplinary German cultural studies ; Volume 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (VIII, 387 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Recent years have seen a wealth of new scholarship on the history of photography, cinema, digital media, and video games, yet less attention has been devoted to earlier forms of visual culture. The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic proliferation of new technologies, devices, and print processes, which provided growing audiences with access to more visual material than ever before. This volume brings together the best aspects of interdisciplinary scholarship to enhance our understanding of the production, dissemination, and consumption of visual media prior to the predominance of photographic reproduction. By setting these examples against the backdrop of demographic, educational, political, commercial, scientific, and industrial shifts in Central Europe, these essays reveal the diverse ways that innovation in visual culture affected literature, philosophy, journalism, the history of perception, exhibition culture, and the representation of nature and human life in both print and material culture in local, national, transnational, and global contexts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction: Before Photography

Part 1: Ways of Seeing

Ways of Seeing

Ballooning as a Technology of Seeing in Jean Paul’s “Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo Seebuch” (1801)

Through the Eyepiece and What Visual Satire Found There

Enacting the Past: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Periodicals and Painted Panoramas

Visual Cultures of Popular Anatomy Exhibition: The Role of Visitor Environment in Shaping the Impact of Public Health Education

Part 2: Materials and Media

Materials and Media

Cut-Ups on the Edges of the Photographic Century

Printed Pilgrimage: Spiritual Labyrinths in the German-American Home

Arc of the Anemone: Modeling Nature from the Wunderkammer to the Warenwelt

The Traveling Cliché: Circulation and Fixity in Engraved Representations of Ethnographic “Others”

Part 3: Image and Text

Image and Text

Image, Language, Science: Hieroglyphs and the Romantic Quest for Primordial Truth

A Poetics of Scaling: Adalbert Stifter and the Measures of Nature Around 1850

Adventure from Concentrate: Visual Interventions in German Youth Adaptations of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales

Epilogue

Scans, Databases, and Apps: Using Twenty-First-Century Technology to Study Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture

Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-11-069644-4

OCLC:

1241447192