More than meets the eye: the magic of the panorama

Collection of essays by 29 authors who have contributed to International Panorama Council conferences over the years. Contents: Preface / Sara Velas, Seth Thompson Introduction / Gabriele Koller A Growing Community: A Brief History of the International Panorama Council / Patrick Deicher A GLOBAL PHENOMENON "Picturesque Promenades around the World": The Cosmorama and its Cultural Context / Erkki Huhtamo Eclipsing the Sublime Porte: Directed Perception in the European and Asian Panoramas of Constantinople of 1801 / Denise Blake Oleksijczuk Panoramas and Dioramas in Turkey and their Predecessors in the Late Ottoman Empire / Patrizia Kern The Artistic Diorama in Russia (1829-1970s): An Overview / Alexey Druzhinin Innovation and Elevation of the Panorama in China / Ji Yunhui A Virtual Tour of Japanese Panorama Halls from Fukuoka to Fukushima / Machiko Kusahara Un'opera brasiliana in quattro atti: Panoramas of Rio de Janeiro / Thiago Leitão de Souza A Battle of Gettysburg Cyclorama shown in Australia and New Zealand, 1906-1907 / Mimi Colligan European Capitalists/American Panoramas / Suzanne Wray THE PANORAMA AS SPECTACLE Pergamon Hype and Pergamon Party: Pergamon Panoramas in Berlin, 1886 and 2011 / Stephan Oettermann London to Hong Kong in Two Hours: A Victorian Moving Panorama / Ralph Hyde John Lamb Primus and John Lamb Secundus: The Artists of London to Hong Kong in Two Hours / David Brill On the Grand Moving Mirror of California at the Velaslavasay Panorama / Sara Velas Crankies: Reinventing the Moving Panorama as Contemporary Folk Art / Sue Truman THE PANORAMIC PERCEPTION The Magic of the Panorama: The Story of One Who Set Forth to Teach Drawing / Yadegar Asisi Sound Environments for Panoramic Paintings / Moritz Fehr Inside the Fortress: The Panorama of the Luxembourg City Museum / Guy Thewes, Antoine Fontaine PANORAMAS AND RELIGION Experiencing Jerusalem in Altötting: Panoramas and Pilgrimage / Gabriele Koller Jerusalem Vizualized: A Jerusalem Panorama in Amsterdam / Sylvia Alting van Geusau Unrolling a "New" Nineteenth-Century Moving Panorama: Scenes from the Life of Christ / Molly Catherine Briggs PANORAMAS AND WAR Yankees in Georgia? How the The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama Became a Confederate Icon / Gordon L. Jones Researching the Battlefields: How Exact was the Panorama Painters' Work? / Michael Kutzer The Studio of Military Artists Named After M.B. Grekov / Lyubov Proshina A War Panorama without a Battle: The Bourbaki Panorama in Lucerne / Patrick Deicher THE PANORAMIC FORMAT Cultural Heritage Through the Lens of the Panorama: Painted and Digital Panoramic Re-Presentations of Versailles / Seth Thompson City-Rama: Looking in/Looking out: Panoramic Inspirations at the Queens Museum, New York / Blagovesta Momchedjikova Anamorphic Americana / Gregory Kahn Melitonov, Kelly Pyle International Panorama Council Conferences, 1992-2019