Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

ISBN-13: 9780367350260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 250 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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