Visual Voyages
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Visual Voyages
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Author : Daniela Bleichmar
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2017-01-01
Visual Voyages written by Daniela Bleichmar and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Art categories.
An unprecedented visual exploration of the intertwined histories of art and science, of the old world and the new 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. Author Daniela Bleichmar shows that these images were not only works of art but also instruments for the production of knowledge, with scientific, social, and political repercussions. Early depictions of Latin American nature introduced European audiences to native medicines and religious practices. By the 17th century, revelatory accounts of tobacco, chocolate, and cochineal reshaped science, trade, and empire around the globe. In the 18th and 19th centuries, collections and scientific expeditions produced both patriotic and imperial visions of Latin America. Through an interdisciplinary examination of more than 150 maps, illustrated manuscripts, still lifes, and landscape paintings spanning four hundred years, Visual Voyages establishes Latin America as a critical site for scientific and artistic exploration, affirming that region's transformation and the transformation of Europe as vitally connected histories.
Visual Culture And Arctic Voyages
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Author : Eavan O'Dochartaigh
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-10
Visual Culture And Arctic Voyages written by Eavan O'Dochartaigh and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-10 with Art categories.
Uncovering a wealth of archival information, Eavan O'Dochartaigh gives fresh and surprising insight into the Victorian image of the Arctic.
Visual Culture And Arctic Voyages
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Author : Eavan O'Dochartaigh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Visual Culture And Arctic Voyages written by Eavan O'Dochartaigh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with LITERARY CRITICISM categories.
"In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his crew set out from London on the ships Terror and Erebus for the Northwest Passage that was thought to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. When the Franklin expedition failed to return, numerous search expeditions (thirty-six in all) were sent in its wake, producing hundreds of sketches, paintings, and texts that ultimately fed into a fascination with the Arctic. Very little research has been done on the visual records of Arctic exploration during this period. This is despite a burgeoning of interest in the polar regions in general, specifically in the literary Arctic and Antarctic, and the discovery of the two Franklin ships (in 2014 and 2016). The visual informed, and continues to inform, our ideas of the polar regions in crucial ways. This book follows the depiction of the Arctic from the ship to the shore, beginning in the Northwest Passage and ending in the metropole, continually returning to the Arctic through the eyes of the little-known expedition members who took part in the search for Franklin"--
Visible Empire
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Author : Daniela Bleichmar
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-10-08
Visible Empire written by Daniela Bleichmar and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-08 with Science categories.
Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collections of specimens, they dedicated an overwhelming proportion of their resources and energy to the creation of visual materials. European and American naturalists and artists collaborated to manufacture a staggering total of more than 12,000 botanical illustrations. Yet these images have remained largely overlooked—until now. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Daniela Bleichmar gives this archive its due, finding in these botanical images a window into the worlds of Enlightenment science, visual culture, and empire. Through innovative interdisciplinary scholarship that bridges the histories of science, visual culture, and the Hispanic world, Bleichmar uses these images to trace two related histories: the little-known history of scientific expeditions in the Hispanic Enlightenment and the history of visual evidence in both science and administration in the early modern Spanish empire. As Bleichmar shows, in the Spanish empire visual epistemology operated not only in scientific contexts but also as part of an imperial apparatus that had a long-established tradition of deploying visual evidence for administrative purposes.
Voyages Of Discovery
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Author : A. L. Rice
language : en
Publisher: Firefly Books Limited
Release Date : 2008
Voyages Of Discovery written by A. L. Rice and has been published by Firefly Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Recalls three centuries of natural history exploration, and includes maps and rare drawings, as well as the stories of Captain Cook, Charles Darwin, and other explorers.
Voyages Of Discovery
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Author : Tony Rice
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-05
Voyages Of Discovery written by Tony Rice and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05 with Natural history categories.
Superb artworks and photographs spanning three centuries document advances and watersheds in the field of natural science. The stories behind these images--of explorers, naturalists, artists and photographers--entwine into a fascinating study of human achievement and natural wonder. Among the many stories of adventure and great scientific endeavour are: Sir Hans Sloane's journey to Jamaica in 1687; James Cook's perilous Pacific crossings; and Darwin's historic voyage aboard HMS Beagle. Hand-picked from the vast Library of the Natural History Museum, London, the illustrations and artworks contained here form a rare collection, most of which have been presented for the first time in this stunning book.
Cartographic Expeditions And Visual Culture In The Nineteenth Century Americas
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Author : Ernesto Capello
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-16
Cartographic Expeditions And Visual Culture In The Nineteenth Century Americas written by Ernesto Capello and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-16 with History categories.
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.
Voyages And Visions
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Author : Jaś Elsner
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 1999
Voyages And Visions written by Jaś Elsner and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to this collection include historians of art and of science, anthropologists, literary critics and mainstream cultural historians. Their essays encompass a challenging range of subjects, including the explorations of South America, India and Mexico; mountaineering in the Himalayas; space travel; science fiction; and American post-war travel fiction. Voyages and Visions is truly interdisciplinary, and essential reading for anyone interested in travel writing. With essays by Kasia Boddy, Michael Bravo, Peter Burke, Melissa Calaresu, Jesus Maria Carillo Castillo, Peter Hansen, Edward James, Nigel Leask, Joan-Pau Rubies and Wes Williams.
The World On A Canvas
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
The World On A Canvas written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
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Voyages Into The Unknown
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Author : Bruce Moen
language : en
Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
Release Date : 1997-08-01
Voyages Into The Unknown written by Bruce Moen and has been published by Hampton Roads Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-08-01 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
The author says, "I'm just an ordinary human being whose curiousity about human existence beyond death led me to extraordinary experience. . . . If there is any difference between you and me it is only that my curiousity has already led me to exlore and know what lies beyond death in the Afterlife." This fascinating volume recounts the story of some of his voyages past the edge of life, using techniques learned at The Monroe Institute. Moen describes for the reader how to access this knowledge for themselves and to learn what the Afterlife really is.