Visual voyages : images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin
- Title
- Visual voyages : images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin / Daniela Bleichmar.
- Published by
- New Haven : Yale University Press in association with The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, [2017]
- ©2017
- Author
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- Additional authors
- Description
- xiii, 226 pages : color illustrations, maps; 29 cm
- Summary
- 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. Exhibition: The Huntington Library, San Marino, USA (16.09.2017-08.01.2018).
- Alternative title
- Images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin
- Subject
- Natural history
- Europe
- Latin America
- Natural history illustration
- Scientific expeditions
- Natural history > Latin America > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
- Natural history illustration > Latin America > Exhibitions
- Scientific expeditions > Latin America > Exhibitions
- Exhibition, pictorial works
- Natural history in art > Exhibitions
- Europe > Relations > Latin America > Exhibitions
- International relations
- Latin America > Relations > Europe > Exhibitions
- Illustrated works
- Latin America > In art > Exhibitions
- Exhibition catalogs
- Genre/Form
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Illustrated works.
- Exhibition, pictorial works.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call number
- JQF 18-409
- Note
- 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.
- "Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation."
- "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Latin American & Latino Art in LA"--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.
- Author
- Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973- author.
- Title
- Visual voyages : images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin / Daniela Bleichmar.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press in association with The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, [2017]
- Copyright date
- ©2017
- Type of content
- text
- still image
- cartographic image
- Type of medium
- unmediated
- Type of carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index.
- Added author
- Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)
- Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
- LCCN
- 2017930519
- ISBN
- 9780300224023
- 0300224028
- Research call number
- JQF 18-409