Introduction: Landscape, Memory and Place

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. PIMS Yearbook Editorial Board IX
4. Call for the PIMS Yearbook, volume 2, 2025 XI
5. Executive Editors’ Introduction XIII
6. 1 Scholarly Essays
7. Introduction: Panoramas, Immersive Media, and Lost Worlds 1
8. The Panorama of Rio de Janeiro by Victor Meirelles and Henri Langerock: Exploring the Virtual Faux Terrain in a 360º Experience by Game Engines 5
9. Relocating Shengjing: Traveling Panorama as Theory 25
10. Immersion and Manipulation of Time in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017) and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of Kingdom (2023) 55
11. Listening to the Aural Heritage of John Banvard’s Mississippi Panoramas: Reflections on Content and an Initial Speculative Re-Enactment 77
12. Panoramas as Projections of the Unconscious in Nineteenth-Century Fiction 105
13. 2 Reprints
14. Introduction: La Nature à Coup d’Œil 123
15. Robert Barker’s Panorama Patent of 1787—Art and Technique Combined 125
16. 3 Restoration, Management, and Field Reports
17. Introduction: Conservation and Restoration of Late Nineteenth-Century Panoramas—The Role of the Faux Terrain 137
18. The Nine Lives of The Battle of Atlanta’s Faux Terrain, 1886–2019 139
19. The Panorama Jerusalem and the Crucifixion of Christ in Altötting, Germany 161
20. 4 Visual and Creative Essays
21. Introduction: Landscape, Memory and Place 173
22. The Very, Very Lucky Bad Luck of Jan Styka 175
23. Recreating a Lost World Through Immersive Illustration: A View from Napoli Capodichino 185
24. 5 International Panorama Council Conference Report & Papers
25. Introduction: 33rd Annual International Panorama Council Conference at the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History 199
26. Surrounded with Sights, Showered by Sounds: The Laysan Island Cyclorama 201
27. At the UI Museum of Natural History, a Paradise Not Yet Lost 213
28. A Story of Sad Losses: On the Fates of Some Nineteenth-Century Panoramas 225
29. The Kilauea Cyclorama: More than a Picture, a “Spectacular Cyclorama” 239
30. Virtual Remediation of Lost Panoramas: Developing Dedicated Tools for Displaying Panoramas in Virtual Reality 251
31. Panoramic Inscriptions: Perspectival Typography and Pictorial Lettering in Immersive Ephemera 273
32. The Digital Twin of the Panorama of the Battle of Murten: Notes on the Creation of the World’s Largest Image307 295
33. Conference Program 307
34. Presentation Abstracts & Author Biographies 313
35. 6 Reviews
36. Introduction 339
37. Panorama Histories: Insights From Scholars in the Field 341
38. Beyond the Real: Alchemy, Illusions, and the City of Angels 351
39. 7 Call for the 2024 Conference
40. Introduction 366
41. Index 367