Light Touches: Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900 [Paperback]

List of Figures Introduction 1. From these three, light, shade and colour, we construct the visible world 2. Muslin: Concealing and Revealing 3. Mirrors: Reflection, Recognition, Remediation 4. Mood lighting: Public illuminations 5. Aesthetics and economics of daylight 6. Seeing with vision that feels, feeling with fingers that see Conclusion Index

Light Touches: Cultural Practices of Illumination, 1800-1900 explores how urban lives in the nineteenth century were increasingly touched by innovations in the technologies and aesthetics of illumination. Dramatic changes in qualities of light  and darkness