Art League Houston is pleased to announce the opening of Museum of Unnatural History, a dioramic installation of new works by Elaine Bradford, on view from January 9 – February 20, 2009. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Museum of Unnatural History, a dioramic installation of new works by Elaine Bradford ❋ Unknown (2009)
Even the visuals inside his Imaginarium are flat, dioramic, and handmade -- they look more like clay models than the modern CGI world of Avatar, the current cutting edge of cinematic imagination. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Galperin puts it, of dioramic representation, echo the indeterminacy of the gothic church (Galperin 64), the ❋ Unknown (2005)
This group of Dioramas on display from 1825-28, with their use of ruined Gothic structures, evoke the more literary and thematic aspects of the Gothic revival in the eighteenth century, and in this are somewhat distinct from the dioramic representations of intact Gothic cathedrals such as Chartres and ❋ Unknown (2005)
It held a cigar store in one leg and a dioramic display in another, hotel rooms within the elephant proper, and an observation area at the top with panoramic sea views. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Picturesque Guide to Regent's Park observed that architecture and landscape are both fortunate subjects for the Diorama because "the effects of perspective and distance are peculiarly well adapted for dioramic representation" (41). ❋ Unknown (2005)
We are of opinion that this art may be applied to the production of magic-lantern slides, dissolving views, and dioramic effects; though we are not aware whether such experiments have been tried. ❋ Daniel Young (N/A)
The most capacious of the shops contains a dioramic exhibition of cities and scenes in the daylight-world, with a dreary glimmer of gas among them all; so that they serve well enough to represent the dim, unsatisfactory remembrances that dead people might be supposed to retain from their past lives, mixing them up with the ghastliness of their unsubstantial state. ❋ Various (N/A)
The passages are all lighted up with gas, and in the way you find raree shows of a dioramic character, and plenty of music, and not a few venders of views and models of the tunnel. ❋ Various (N/A)
The dinners I might have enjoyed, passed in a dioramic view before my eyes. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1892)
The custom of interrupting the harlequinade by the exhibition of dioramic views, at one time contrived annually by Clarkson Stanfield, expired about thirty years ago; as a substitute for these came the gorgeous transformation scenes, traceable to the grand displays which were wont to conclude Mr. Planché's extravaganzas at the Lyceum ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)
For two seasons he held a dioramic exhibition of his own, called the Eidophusikon, at the Patagonian Theatre in Exeter ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)
But M. Daguerre, who is a celebrated dioramic painter, being desirous of employing some of the singularly changeable salts of silver to produce a peculiar class of effects in his paintings, was led to pursue an investigation which resulted in the discovery of the Daguerreotype, or Photogenic drawing on plates of copper coated with silver. ❋ Henry Hunt Snelling (1856)
De Loutherbourg had professedly two objects in view: to display his skill as a scene-painter well versed in dioramic effects, and to demonstrate to the English people the beauties of their own country. ❋ Dutton Cook (1856)
Unless absolutely prostrated by illness, the voyager, of course, has a ravenous appetite; such being the case, what can be more exasperating than having to grapple with a sort of dioramic dinner, where the dishes represent a series of dissolving views -- mutton and beef of mature age, leaping about with a playfulness only becoming living lambs and calves -- while the proverb of "cup and lip" becomes a truism from perpetual illustration? ❋ Unknown (1851)
We also saw the mites in cheese, gigantically magnified by a solar microscope; likewise some dioramic views, with all which I was mightily pleased, and for myself, being tired to death of sights, I would as lief see them as anything else. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
