18th century american art
19th century american art
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american art history
art
art history
artist
asher b durand
Author_Jennifer L. Roberts
british america
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commodity circulation
delivery
early american art
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forests
geographic expansion
john james audubon
john singleton copley
landscape paintings
material history
mobility
moving pictures
natural world
oceans
paintings
physical world
pictures
prints
rivers
social cohesion
swamps
the birds of america
towns
united states of america
visual communication
Product details
- ISBN 9780520251847
- Weight: 816g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 17 Jan 2014
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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 of artworks with other kinds of things in transit--Jennifer L. Roberts forges a model for a material history of visual communication in early America. Focusing on paintings and prints by John Singleton Copley, John James Audubon, and Asher B. Durand--which were designed with mobility in mind--Roberts shows how an analysis of such imagery opens new perspectives on the most fundamental problems of early American commodity circulation, geographic expansion, and social cohesion.
Jennifer L. Roberts is Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. She teaches American art from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on issues of landscape, expedition, material culture theory, and the history of science, and is the author of Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History.
