LEADER 04000oam 2200589I 450 001 9910150220203321 005 20240501160223.0 010 $a1-315-40770-1 010 $a1-315-40768-X 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315407708 035 $a(CKB)3710000000932711 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4741989 035 $a970383863 035 $a(OCoLC)962752629 035 $a(OCoLC-P)962752629 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781315407708 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000932711 100 $a20161116d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu---unuuu 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aLight touches $ecultural practices of illumination, 1780-1900 /$fAlice Barnaby 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (158 pages) $cillustrations, tables, photographs 225 1 $aDirections in Cultural History 300 $aOutgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--University of Exeter, 2009) under the title: Light touches : cultural practises of illumination, London 1780-1840. 311 $a0-415-66337-7 311 $a1-315-40769-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. 327 $a1. 'From these three, light, shade and colour, we construct the visbile world' -- 2. Muslin : concealing and revealing -- 3. Mirrors : reflection, recognition, remediation -- 4. Mood lighting : public illuminations -- 5. Aesthetics and economics of daylight -- 6. 'Seeing with vision that feels, feeling with fingers that see'. 330 $aLight Touches: Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900 explores how urban lives in the nineteenth century were increasingly touched by innovations in the technologies and aesthetics of illumination. Dramatic changes in qualities of light - and darkness - became acutely palpable to the human sensorium; using, seeing, feeling, and being in light were now matters of intense personal and cultural concern. Light gave meaningful vitality to the period's material culture, and light itself became something to be perceptually consumed. Over the course of six chapters Alice Barnaby traces how light was used in amateur artistic pastimes, interior design and clothing fashions, spectacular public amusements, volatile street demonstrations, and art gallery designs. From these previously unexplored examples a more complex history of light in the period emerges. Society's fascination with illumination, its desire to work with it and make meaning from it gave rise to a distinctly new set of cultural practices. Through these practices unexpected discoveries about the modern world were revealed. Light proved to be instrumental in everyday acts of experimentation and imaginative enquiry. Barnaby offers an intervention into the dominant scholarly narrative of the nineteenth century which traditionally reads modernity as synonymous with the formation of a spectacular, disembodied visuality. Light Touches, in contrast, returns vision to the body and foregrounds the actively felt - as well as seen - sensation of light. In coming to understand these cultural practices of illumination, the book reconsiders many assumptions about nineteenth-century modernity. 410 0$aDirections in cultural history (London, England) 606 $aLighting$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain 606 $aVisual perception$xSocial aspects$zGreat Britain 606 $aArt and society$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xCivilization$y19th century 615 0$aLighting$xSocial aspects 615 0$aVisual perception$xSocial aspects 615 0$aArt and society$xHistory 676 $a392.3/6 676 $a392.36 686 $aHIS015000$aSOC052000$2bisacsh 700 $aBarnaby$b Alice$0959049 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910150220203321 996 $aLight touches$92172830 997 $aUNINA