Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Capello, Ernesto; Rosenbaum, Julia B.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume represents the first transnational and hemispheric analysis of nineteenth-century intersections between cartographic expeditions and visual material in the Americas and features the multi-disciplinary perspective of historians, geographers, and art historians.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000228793
• Artikelnr.: 60362648

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