Traces the history of large-scale panoramic paintings of cityscapes, battles, and other subjects which were created for public exhibition chiefly in the nineteenth century

The Painted Panorama

Arts & Photography

Comment, Bernard

Painting

Harry N. Abrams

The debut novel of Bernard Comment, acclaimed author and editor, now available in English for the first time, The Shadow of Memory brings a fairy-tale premise into the modern world, where information—and its loss—can be a matter of life and death. In this eerie, compelling, and playful novel, a young man tormented by his feeble memory meets an elderly man, Robert, endowed with the recall of an elephant. Soon, in exchange for becoming his live-in servant, Robert agrees to allow his young protégé to inherit his prodigious memory upon his death. While this might seem a fair if absurd exchange, Robert’s demands become progressively more macabre, until the narrator is forced to decide what he is truly willing to sacrifice for the ability to remember. The debut novel of Bernard Comment, acclaimed author and editor, now available in English for the first time, The Shadow of Memory brings a fairy-tale premise into the modern world, where information—and its loss—can be a matter of life and death.

The Shadow of Memory (Swiss Literature)

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Dalkey Archive Press

The debut novel of Bernard Comment, acclaimed author and editor, now available in English for the first time, The Shadow of Memory brings a fairy-tale premise into the modern world, where information--and its loss--can be a matter of life and death.

Shadow of Memory (Swiss Literature)

Invented in 1788, the panorama reached the height of its popularity at the time of the 1900 Universal Exhibition. Designed to be viewed from centrally placed platforms, these vast circular canvases were installed in purpose-built rotundas in major European and American towns, and attracted an admiring public.This illustrated book surveys the wide variety of panoramas created in both the Old and New Worlds, from the medium's invention down to the present day. Included among views of cities are Robert Barker's groundbreaking panorama of Edinburgh, as well as depictions of Paris, Rome and Constantinople. Vistas of the Mississippi and Congo rivers are also illustrated. Among historical themes, the Crucifixion, the history of the nineteenth century and crucial moments in military campaigns proved especially popular. Bernard Comment explores these subjects as well as theoretical aspects of the panorama's history, suggesting how their makers expanded upon concepts latent in the earlier history of landscape painting.

Panorama

History

Reaktion Books

Invented in 1788, the panorama reached the height of its popularity at the time of the 1900 Universal Exhibition. Vast circular canvases installed in purpose-built rotundas were designed to be viewed from centrally placed platforms and attracted an admiring public. The aim was to produce a perfect illusion. Thus the relationship between viewer and 'reality' underwent a profound mutation, opening up a new logic according to which the world was transformed into a spectacle and images substituted for direct experience.This lavishly illustrated book examines the wide variety of panoramas in both the Old and New Worlds. Included among views of cities are Robert Barker's View of Edinburgh and Karl Friedrich Schinkel's View of Palermo, as well as depiction of Paris, Moscow, Jerusalem and Lima; among historical themes, The History of the Century and Battle of Moscow proved especially popular. The author expands his subject to encompass the sister formats of diorama and cineorama.

The Panorama

Anselm Kiefer - Die Frauen der Antike

History & Criticism

YVON LAMBERT

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