Title Framing Spaces in Motion Tracing Visualizations of Earthquakes into Twentieth-century San Francisco

Published Universitaetsverlag Winter 2014

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Description 1 online resource Series American Studies - A Monograph Series ; v. 255 American Studies - A Monograph Series Contents Acknowledgements; Prologue: How the Pictures Became the Frames; 1. Introduction:' Framing Spaces in Motion'; 2. Introducing the Conceptual Scaffolding; 2.1 Emplacing 'Framing Spaces in Motion' in American Studies; 2.2 'Nature' and 'Disasters' in Their (Inter- )Disciplinary Contexts; 2.3 Earthquake Frames; 2.4 The Pictorial Interplay in Earthquake Pictures; 3. On the Pictorial Repertoire of Earthquake Illustrations; 3.1 European Conventions of 'Framing Spaces in Motion'; 3.2 American Practices and Traditions of Depicting Earthquakes 4. Framing San Francisco's Early Firesand Earthquakes4.1 The Risings of the Phoenix: The Six Great Conflagrations; 4.2 Nineteenth-Century Tremors in San Francisco; 5. The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire; 5.1 'The day of the end of the world': April 18, 1906; 5.2 The Visual Culture of the 1906 San Francisco Calamity; 5.3 The Framings of the 1906 Disaster in and beyond Picture Frames; 5.4 Re-Framing the Earthquake and Fire Pictures of 1906; Fig. 36: "Looking West" (1906 ; Fig. 37: "View of Nob Hill" (1906 Fig. 38: "Looking Northwest" (1906 Fig. 39: Map from "San Francisco: The Imperishable" (1906 ; Fig. 40: Map from San Francisco and Vicinity (1906 ; Fig. 41: Chas Ehrer, Custom-Made Postcard (1906 ; Fig. 42: Allegorical Drawing of the Rising Phoenix (1906 Fig. 43: "Effect of the Earthquake" (1906 Fig. 44: "Result of Earthquake" (1906 ; Fig. 45: Pre-Fire Panorama of San Francisco (1906 ; Fig. 46: Post-Fire Panorama of San Francisco (1906 ; Fig. 47: Advertisement for "Pompeii in America" (ca. 1906 Fig. 48: Anna Biggs, Drawing of the Ruined City Hall (1906 Fig. 49: Louis J. Stellman, "Portals of the Past" (1910 ; Fig. 50: Maynard Dixon, Sunset Magazine Cover (1906 ; Fig. 51: "Undaunted" (1915 ; Fig. 52: "A Return to Nature" (1906 ; Fig. 53: "True Grit" (1906 Subject Earthquake -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works Earthquake swarms -- California -- San Francisco -- Pictorial works Earthquake sounds -- Pictorial works Earthquakes in art -- Social aspects -- California -- San Francisco Earthquake sounds Earthquake swarms California -- San Francisco Genre/Form Pictorial works Form Electronic book ISBN 9783825373672 3825373673

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