Before Photography

Published by De Gruyter 2021

Before Photography

German Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century

Edited by: Kirsten Belgum , Vance Byrd and John D. Benjamin

Volume 29 in the series Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110696448

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About this book

Recent years have seen a wealth of new scholarship on the history of photography, cinema, digital media, and video games, yet less attention has been devoted to earlier forms of visual culture. The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic proliferation of new technologies, devices, and print processes, which provided growing audiences with access to more visual material than ever before. This volume brings together the best aspects of interdisciplinary scholarship to enhance our understanding of the production, dissemination, and consumption of visual media prior to the predominance of photographic reproduction. By setting these examples against the backdrop of demographic, educational, political, commercial, scientific, and industrial shifts in Central Europe, these essays reveal the diverse ways that innovation in visual culture affected literature, philosophy, journalism, the history of perception, exhibition culture, and the representation of nature and human life in both print and material culture in local, national, transnational, and global contexts.

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Kirsten Belgum, University of Texas at Austin; Vance Byrd, Grinnell College; John Benjamin, United States Military Academy, West Point.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction: Before Photography Kirsten Belgum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: Ways of Seeing
Ways of Seeing John D. Benjamin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Ballooning as a Technology of Seeing in Jean Paul’s “Des Luftschiffers Giannozzo Seebuch” (1801) Kathrin Maurer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Through the Eyepiece and What Visual Satire Found There Christian A. Bachmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
Enacting the Past: Nineteenth-Century Illustrated Periodicals and Painted Panoramas Vance Byrd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Visual Cultures of Popular Anatomy Exhibition: The Role of Visitor Environment in Shaping the Impact of Public Health Education Peter M. McIsaac Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Part 2: Materials and Media
Materials and Media John D. Benjamin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Cut-Ups on the Edges of the Photographic Century Catriona MacLeod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Printed Pilgrimage: Spiritual Labyrinths in the German-American Home Trevor Brandt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Arc of the Anemone: Modeling Nature from the Wunderkammer to the Warenwelt J. P. Short Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
The Traveling Cliché: Circulation and Fixity in Engraved Representations of Ethnographic “Others” David Ciarlo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Part 3: Image and Text
Image and Text John D. Benjamin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Image, Language, Science: Hieroglyphs and the Romantic Quest for Primordial Truth Antje Pfannkuchen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
A Poetics of Scaling: Adalbert Stifter and the Measures of Nature Around 1850 Agnes Hoffmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Adventure from Concentrate: Visual Interventions in German Youth Adaptations of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales Matthew O. Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293
Epilogue
Scans, Databases, and Apps: Using Twenty-First-Century Technology to Study Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture Kirsten Belgum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	323
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	351
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	379

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of history, art history, visual studies, cultural studies, literary studies, museum studies
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 387
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 73
Keywords: Visual culture; image; distribution; nineteenth-century Germany

eBook

Published: March 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110696448

Hardcover

Published: March 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110694840

Paperback

Published: December 19, 2022
ISBN: 9783111104584