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Peter John Brownlee is Curator at the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Introduction. An Ocular Age: Vision in a World of SurfacesPART I. THE PROBLEM OF VISIONChapter 1. Ophthalmology, Popular Physiology, and the Market Revolution in VisionChapter 2. Vision, Eyewear, and the Art of RefractionPART II. THE CHAOS OF PRINTChapter 3. Broadsides, Display Types, and the Physiology of the Moving EyeChapter 4. Signboards, Vision, and Commerce in the Antebellum CityPART III. PAINTING, PRINT, PERCEPTIONChapter 5. The Optics of Newspaper VisionChapter 6. Paper Money, Spectral Illusions, and the Limits of VisionNotesIndexAcknowledgments