Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America

by Jennifer Roberts

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520251849
• ISBN13: 9780520251847
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 10.2"