Curtis on the Preservation of Sight
Title | Curtis on the Preservation of Sight PDF eBook |
Author | John Harrison Curtis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1844 |
Genre | Eyeglasses |
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Observations on the Preservation of Sight, and on the Use, Abuse and Choice of Spectacles, Reading-glasses, Etc. by John Harrison Curtis,...
Title | Observations on the Preservation of Sight, and on the Use, Abuse and Choice of Spectacles, Reading-glasses, Etc. by John Harrison Curtis,... PDF eBook |
Author | John Harrison Curtis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1834 |
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Observations on the Preservation of Sight, and on the use, abuse and choice of spectacles, reading-glasses, &c. (Extracted from ... Treatise on the Physiology and Diseases of the Eye.).
Title | Observations on the Preservation of Sight, and on the use, abuse and choice of spectacles, reading-glasses, &c. (Extracted from ... Treatise on the Physiology and Diseases of the Eye.). PDF eBook |
Author | John Harrison CURTIS |
Publisher | |
Pages | 46 |
Release | 1834 |
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Observations on the Preservation of Sight, and on the Choicice, Sue, and Abuse of Spectacles, Reading-glasses
Title | Observations on the Preservation of Sight, and on the Choicice, Sue, and Abuse of Spectacles, Reading-glasses PDF eBook |
Author | John Harrison Curtis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1838 |
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On the Preservation of Sight, the Diseases of the Eye
Title | On the Preservation of Sight, the Diseases of the Eye PDF eBook |
Author | John Harrison Curtis |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1844 |
Genre | Eye |
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The Medical Quarterly Review VOL.II
Title | The Medical Quarterly Review VOL.II PDF eBook |
Author | The Medical Quarterly Review VOL.II |
Publisher | |
Pages | 522 |
Release | 1834 |
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The Commerce of Vision
Title | The Commerce of Vision PDF eBook |
Author | Peter John Brownlee |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 407 |
Release | 2018-08-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0812295307 |
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.