Peter John Brownlee is Curator at the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Introduction. An Ocular Age: Vision in a World of Surfaces
PART I. THE PROBLEM OF VISION
Chapter 1. Ophthalmology, Popular Physiology, and the Market Revolution in Vision
Chapter 2. Vision, Eyewear, and the Art of Refraction
PART II. THE CHAOS OF PRINT
Chapter 3. Broadsides, Display Types, and the Physiology of the Moving Eye
Chapter 4. Signboards, Vision, and Commerce in the Antebellum City
PART III. PAINTING, PRINT, PERCEPTION
Chapter 5. The Optics of Newspaper Vision
Chapter 6. Paper Money, Spectral Illusions, and the Limits of Vision
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments