The Commerce of Vision: Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America
When Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1837 that "Our Age is Ocular," he offered a succinct assessment of antebellum America's cultural, commercial, and physiological preoccupation with sight. In the early nineteenth century, the American city's visual culture was manifest in pamphlet...
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| Zusammenfassung: | When Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1837 that "Our Age is Ocular," he offered a succinct assessment of antebellum America's cultural, commercial, and physiological preoccupation with sight. In the early nineteenth century, the American city's visual culture was manifest in pamphlets, newspapers, painting exhibitions, and spectacular entertainments; businesses promoted their wares to consumers on the move with broadsides, posters, and signboards; and advances in ophthalmological sciences linked the mechanics of vision to the physiological functions of the human body. Within this crowded visual field, sight circulated as a metaphor, as a physiological process, and as a commercial commodity. Out of the intersection of these various discourses and practices emerged an entirely new understanding of vision.The Commerce of Vision integrates cultural history, art history, and material culture studies to explore how vision was understood and experienced in the first half of the nineteenth century. Peter John Brownlee examines a wide selection of objects and practices that demonstrate the contemporary preoccupation with ocular culture and accurate vision: from the birth of ophthalmic surgery to the business of opticians, from the typography used by urban sign painters and job printers to the explosion of daguerreotypes and other visual forms, and from the novels of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to the genre paintings of Richard Caton Woodville and Francis Edmonds. In response to this expanding visual culture, antebellum Americans cultivated new perceptual practices, habits, and aptitudes. At the same time, however, new visual experiences became quickly integrated with the machinery of commodity production and highlighted the physical shortcomings of sight, as well as nascent ethical shortcomings of a surface-based culture. Through its theoretically acute and extensively researched analysis, The Commerce of Vision synthesizes the broad culturing of vision in antebellum America |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (264 pages) 8 color, 93 b/w illus |
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| spelling | Brownlee, Peter John Verfasser aut The Commerce of Vision Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America Peter John Brownlee Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Press [2018] © 2018 1 online resource (264 pages) 8 color, 93 b/w illus txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Early American Studies Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020) When Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1837 that "Our Age is Ocular," he offered a succinct assessment of antebellum America's cultural, commercial, and physiological preoccupation with sight. In the early nineteenth century, the American city's visual culture was manifest in pamphlets, newspapers, painting exhibitions, and spectacular entertainments; businesses promoted their wares to consumers on the move with broadsides, posters, and signboards; and advances in ophthalmological sciences linked the mechanics of vision to the physiological functions of the human body. Within this crowded visual field, sight circulated as a metaphor, as a physiological process, and as a commercial commodity. Out of the intersection of these various discourses and practices emerged an entirely new understanding of vision.The Commerce of Vision integrates cultural history, art history, and material culture studies to explore how vision was understood and experienced in the first half of the nineteenth century. Peter John Brownlee examines a wide selection of objects and practices that demonstrate the contemporary preoccupation with ocular culture and accurate vision: from the birth of ophthalmic surgery to the business of opticians, from the typography used by urban sign painters and job printers to the explosion of daguerreotypes and other visual forms, and from the novels of Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville to the genre paintings of Richard Caton Woodville and Francis Edmonds. In response to this expanding visual culture, antebellum Americans cultivated new perceptual practices, habits, and aptitudes. At the same time, however, new visual experiences became quickly integrated with the machinery of commodity production and highlighted the physical shortcomings of sight, as well as nascent ethical shortcomings of a surface-based culture. Through its theoretically acute and extensively researched analysis, The Commerce of Vision synthesizes the broad culturing of vision in antebellum America In English Geschichte 1800-1850 gnd rswk-swf American History American Studies Cultural Studies HISTORY / United States / 19th Century bisacsh Vision Visual communication United States History 19th century Visual perception Economic aspects United States History 19th century Visuelle Kommunikation (DE-588)4131112-7 gnd rswk-swf Visuelle Wahrnehmung (DE-588)4078921-4 gnd rswk-swf Wirtschaft (DE-588)4066399-1 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 gnd rswk-swf USA (DE-588)4078704-7 g Visuelle Kommunikation (DE-588)4131112-7 s Visuelle Wahrnehmung (DE-588)4078921-4 s Wirtschaft (DE-588)4066399-1 s Geschichte 1800-1850 z 1\p DE-604 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295306 Verlag URL des Erstveröffentlichers Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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| title | The Commerce of Vision Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America |
| title_auth | The Commerce of Vision Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America |
| title_exact_search | The Commerce of Vision Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America |
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| title_full | The Commerce of Vision Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America Peter John Brownlee |
| title_fullStr | The Commerce of Vision Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America Peter John Brownlee |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Commerce of Vision Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America Peter John Brownlee |
| title_short | The Commerce of Vision |
| title_sort | the commerce of vision optical culture and perception in antebellum america |
| title_sub | Optical Culture and Perception in Antebellum America |
| topic | American History American Studies Cultural Studies HISTORY / United States / 19th Century bisacsh Vision Visual communication United States History 19th century Visual perception Economic aspects United States History 19th century Visuelle Kommunikation (DE-588)4131112-7 gnd Visuelle Wahrnehmung (DE-588)4078921-4 gnd Wirtschaft (DE-588)4066399-1 gnd |
| topic_facet | American History American Studies Cultural Studies HISTORY / United States / 19th Century Vision Visual communication United States History 19th century Visual perception Economic aspects United States History 19th century Visuelle Kommunikation Visuelle Wahrnehmung Wirtschaft USA |
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