Transporting Visions

The Movement of Images in Early America

Jennifer L. Roberts

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University of California Press
17 January 2014

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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 of artworks with other kinds of things in transit-Jennifer L. Roberts forges a model for a material history of visual communication in early America. Focusing on paintings and prints by John Singleton Copley, John James Audubon, and Asher B. Durand-which were designed with mobility in mind-Roberts shows how an analysis of such imagery opens new perspectives on the most fundamental problems of early American commodity circulation, geographic expansion, and social cohesion.

By: Jennifer L. Roberts
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 816g
ISBN: 9780520251847
ISBN 10: 0520251849
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 17 January 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction: Long-Distance Pictures 1. Dilemmas of Delivery in Copley's Atlantic 2. Audubon's Burden: Materiality and Transmission in The Birds of America 3. Gathering Moss: Asher B. Durand and the Deceleration of Landscape Epilogue: Material Visual Culture Notes Selected Bibliography List of Illustrations Index

Jennifer L. Roberts is Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. She teaches American art from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on issues of landscape, expedition, material culture theory, and the history of science. Her book Mirror-Travels: Robert Smithson and History was published in 2004 by Yale University Press.

Reviews for Transporting Visions: The Movement of Images in Early America

"""Seamlessly written, well illustrated, and a model for scholarly inquiry in other periods of art history."" CHOICE ""A rich text ... fascinating analysis."" -- Austin Porter Panorama"