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November 27, 2019
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"Wendy Ikemoto, Associate Curator of American Art at the New-York Historical Society Museum & Library, discusses her exhibition: Panoramas: The Big Picture, on view at the Society through December 8, 2019.\n\nPanoramas: The Big Picture explores the history and continued impact of panoramas from the 17th to the 21st century, as they were used to create spatial illusions, map places, and tell stories. Highlights include John Trumbull's sweeping double vistas of Niagara Falls (1808), sections of Richard Haas' nearly 200-foot long trompe l'oeil panorama of Manhattan (1982), and Eadweard Muybridge's 17-foot photographic panorama of San Francisco before the city's devastating 1906 earthquake (1878). The exhibition examines and reveals the impact that these and other panoramas had on everything from mass entertainment to nationalism to imperial expansion."
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Advertising, American History, Architecture, Art Galleries, Art History, Assemblage, Exhibitions, Graphic Design, Historiography, Landscape, Mass Media, Panoramas, Surveillance, Virtual Reality, Visualization
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