Visual voyages : images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin / Daniela Bleichmar
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نصتفاصيل النشر:New Haven : Yale University Press, cop. 2017وصف:(226 p.)تدمك:- 978-0-300-22402-3
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Bibliothèque centrale En accès libre | 700 / 1110 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | 1 | المتاح | 000007191855 |
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of the same name held at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, September 16, 2017-January 8, 2018
Bibliogr. p. 207-218
From the voyages of Christopher Columbus to those of Alexander von Humboldt and Charles Darwin, the depiction of the natural world played a central role in shaping how people on both sides of the Atlantic understood and imaged the region we now know as Latin America. Nature provided incentives for exploration, commodities for trade, specimens for scientific investigation, and manifestations of divine forces. It also yielded a rich trove of representations, created both by natives to the region and visitors, which are the subject of this lushly illustrated book...
Foreword / Catherine Hess -- Introduction -- Rewriting the book of nature -- The value of nature -- Collecting: from wonder to order -- New landscapes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Illustration credits
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