The Light of the World: transport and transmission in colonial modernity
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Taking a photograph from the 1906 Australian tour of William Holman Hunt’s painting The Light of the World as my starting point, I explore the special relationship colonial audiences had with magic lantern shows and related entertainments. I examine the sense of ‘transport’ that audiences felt at collectively witnessing images that had been ‘transmitted’ to them from Britain. I argue that their reactions were more complex than those felt in the metropole, and in many ways anticipate our own...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2019-10-14 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/221173 |
Source: | Early Popular Visual Culture |
DOI: | 10.1080/17460654.2019.1665249 |
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