Breysig, JA

Japanese: Breysig,J.A.(英語表記)BreysigJA
Breysig, JA

...The panopticon, a surveillance system invented by J. Bentham, was the product of this "excess of seeing" not leading to enjoyment but rather to a so-called "tyranny of the visual sense." The inventors of the modern panorama are said to be J. A. Breysig (1766-1831), an architectural painter from Danzig (now Gdansk), and R. Barker (1739-1806), a painter from Edinburgh. The latter re-created a landscape of Edinburgh in 1788, and after obtaining a patent, held a show in London in 1794, changing the image twice a year.

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Japanese:

…なお,このような〈見ることの過剰〉が享楽に向かわず,いわば〈視覚の専制〉を生むに至ったのがJ.ベンサム考案になる監視方式パノプティコンにほかならない。 近代的パノラマの発明者はダンチヒ(現,グダンスク)出身の建築画家ブライジヒJ.A.Breysig(1766‐1831),ならびにエジンバラ出身の画家バーカーR.Barker(1739‐1806)であるとされる。後者は1788年にエジンバラにおいて同市の風景を再現公開するとともに,パテントを取得して94年にはロンドンで興行を打ち,年に2回ずつ絵柄を変えたという。…

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