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Light Touches - Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900 (Hardcover)
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Light Touches - Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900 (Hardcover)
Series: Directions in Cultural History
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Light Touches: Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900
explores how urban lives in the nineteenth century were
increasingly touched by innovations in the technologies and
aesthetics of illumination. Dramatic changes in qualities of light
- and darkness - became acutely palpable to the human sensorium;
using, seeing, feeling, and being in light were now matters of
intense personal and cultural concern. Light gave meaningful
vitality to the period's material culture, and light itself became
something to be perceptually consumed. Over the course of six
chapters Alice Barnaby traces how light was used in amateur
artistic pastimes, interior design and clothing fashions,
spectacular public amusements, volatile street demonstrations, and
art gallery designs. From these previously unexplored examples a
more complex history of light in the period emerges. Society's
fascination with illumination, its desire to work with it and make
meaning from it gave rise to a distinctly new set of cultural
practices. Through these practices unexpected discoveries about the
modern world were revealed. Light proved to be instrumental in
everyday acts of experimentation and imaginative enquiry. Barnaby
offers an intervention into the dominant scholarly narrative of the
nineteenth century which traditionally reads modernity as
synonymous with the formation of a spectacular, disembodied
visuality. Light Touches, in contrast, returns vision to the body
and foregrounds the actively felt - as well as seen - sensation of
light. In coming to understand these cultural practices of
illumination, the book reconsiders many assumptions about
nineteenth-century modernity.
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