{"product_id":"the-first-panoramas-1","title":"The First Panoramas","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe First Panoramas\u003c\/i\u003e is a cultural history of the first three decades of the panorama, a three-hundred-sixty-degree visual medium patented by the artist Robert Barker in Britain in 1787. A towering two-story architectural construction inside which spectators gazed on a 10,000-square-foot painting, Barker’s new technology was designed to create an impression of total verisimilitude for the observer. \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eIn the beautifully illustrated \u003ci\u003eThe First Panoramas\u003c\/i\u003e, Denise Blake Oleksijczuk demonstrates the complexity of the panoramas’ history and cultural impact, exploring specific exhibits: \u003ci\u003eView of Edinburgh and the Adjacent Country from the Calton Hill\u003c\/i\u003e (1788), \u003ci\u003eView of London from the Roof of the Albion Mill\u003c\/i\u003e (1791), \u003ci\u003eView of the Grand Fleet Moored at Spithead\u003c\/i\u003e (1793), and the two different versions of \u003ci\u003eView of Constantinople\u003c\/i\u003e (1801). In addition to the art itself, she examines the panoramas’ intriguing descriptive keys—single-sheet diagrams that directed spectators to important sites in the representation, which evolved over time to give the observer greater perceptual control over the view.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eUsing the surviving evidence, much of it never published before, on the early exhibitions of these massive installations, Oleksijczuk reconstructs the relationships between specific paintings, their accompanying printed guides, and the collective experiences of different audiences. She argues that by transporting its spectators to increasingly distant locations, first in the city and country and then in the world beyond Britain’s borders, the panorama created a spatial and temporal disjunction between “here” and “there” that helped to forge new national and social identities.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Denise Blake Oleksijczuk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616437559676,"sku":"9780816648610","price":23.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780816648610_4d9277fc-7c64-486e-a92c-6534f18f5f70.jpg?v=1726478113","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-first-panoramas-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}