Cosmorama is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. Its latitude is 20.8/20°28'40" S and the longitude is 49.85/49°46'40" W. The population in 2004 is 7,137 and the area is 442.66 km² The elevation is 540 m.
Cosmorama was also the name of an entertainment in 19th century London, at 207-209 Regent Street, at which the public could view scenes of distant lands and exotic subjects through optical devices that magnified the pictures. It was later converted into an exhibition of curiosities named the Prince of Wales' Bazaar.
A cosmorama is an exhibition of perspective pictures of different places in the world, usually world landmarks.
Cosmorama was also the name of an entertainment in 19th century London, at 207-209 Regent Street, at which the public could view scenes of distant lands and exotic subjects through optical devices that magnified the pictures.
It was later converted into an exhibition of curiosities named the Prince of Wales Bazaar.
Cosmorama began as an investigation of landscape as a subject in new art.
For Smithson, road construction machinery evoked “mechanical dinosaurs stripped of their skin”; a sewage-pumping derrick became a “monumental fountain”; and a child’s sandbox suggested the evolution of continents, where “every grain of sand was a dead metaphor that equaled timelessness.” His “suburban Odyssey” revealed the entropy of a place where progress struggles to erase history.
In Cosmorama, he converts blank white interior space into a miniaturized, cavernous landscape, hovering somewhere between creation and destruction.
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