On the Viewing Platform: The Panorama Between Canvas and Screen

by Tim Barringer and Katie Trumpener

A wide-ranging study of the painted panorama's influence on art, photography, and film

This ambitious volume presents a multifaceted account of the legacy of the circular painted panorama and its far-reaching influence on art, photography, film, and architecture. From its 18th-century origins, the panorama quickly became a global mass-cultural phenomenon, often linked to an imperial worldview. Yet it also transformed modes of viewing and exerted a lasting, visible impact on filmmaking techniques, museum displays, and contemporary installation art. On the Viewing Platform offers close readings of works ranging from proto-panoramic Renaissance cityscapes and 19th-century paintings and photographs to experimental films and a wide array of contemporary art. Extensively researched and spectacularly illustrated, this volume proposes an expansive new framework for understanding the histories of art, film, and spectatorship.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300184794
• ISBN13: 9780300184792
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"