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panoramaNarrative scene or landscape painted to conform to a curved or flat background, which surrounds or is unrolled before the viewer. Popular in the late 18th and 19th centuries, it was an antecedent of the stereopticon and motion pictures. The true panorama is exhibited on the walls of a large cylinder, and the viewer stands on a platform in the cylinder's centre and turns around to see all points of the horizon. The first panorama, a view of Edinburgh, was executed in 1788 by the Scottish painter Robert Barker (1739–1806). In the mid-19th century the rolled panorama became popular: a painting on canvas was wound between two poles and slowly unrolled behind a frame or revealed in sections. panorama 1. a large extended picture or series of pictures of a scene, unrolled before spectators a part at a time so as to appear continuous 2. another name for cyclorama How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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That of 1999 expands the question of "what-ness" panoramically to the dimensions of "Whence it comes? Here the crown jewel of the East's ambition to compete with the West has itself been transformed into a kind of flea-market relic, a place where bourgeois tourists sip coffee and panoramically survey the expanse of capitalist dominion. |
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