Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

Herausgeber: Capello, Ernesto; Rosenbaum, Julia B.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing, and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto "unknown" territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vast troves of visual and artistic material. This book considers the explosion of expeditionary mapping and its links to visual culture across the Americas, arguing that acts of measurement are also aesthetic acts. Such visual interventions intersect with new technologies, with sociopolitical power and conflict, and with shifting public tastes and consumption practices. Several key questions shape this examination: What kinds of nineteenth-century visual practices and technologies of seeing do these materials engage? How does scientific knowledge get translated into the visual and disseminated to the public? What are the commonalities and distinctions in mapping strategies between North and South America? How does the constitution of expeditionary lines reorder space and the natural landscape itself? The volume represents the first transnational and hemispheric analysis of nineteenth-century cartographic aesthetics, and features the multi-disciplinary perspective of historians, geographers, and art historians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9780367333263
• ISBN-10: 0367333260
• Artikelnr.: 60015210

Autorenporträt

Ernesto Capello is Professor of History at Macalester College. Julia B. Rosenbaum is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Expeditionary Impulse Part I: Seeing and Not Seeing
3. Triangulating the View: Art and the Great Surveys of the American West
in the 1870s 4. Cartographic Representation in the Age of Vernacular
Landscape: Pictorial Metaphor in Stephen Long's Map of the Country Drained
by the Mississippi (1822) 5. Seeing Solitary Deserts Full of People: The
Chorographic Commission in Colombia's Eastern Plains, 1856 Part II: Lines
and Tracings 6. Intervisible Border: Photographs and Monuments Along the
US-Mexico Boundary 7. "Visual Expeditions" Supporting Geopolitical
Vindications: Maps, Photographs and Other Visual Devices in the Diplomatic
Dispute over the Andes as a Natural Border (1900) 8. Female Eyes on South
America: Maria Graham in Brazil 9. Science, Wonder, and Tourism in the
Early Mapping of Yellowstone National Park Part III: Art and the
Expeditionary Impulse 10. Delineating Land: Art, Mapping, and the Work of
Frederic Edwin Church 11. Albert Operti: An Arctic Historical Painter and
the Popular Sublime