Visual voyages : images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin /

"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...

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Main Author: Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973- (Author)
Corporate Author: Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project) (Contributor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press in association with the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, [2017]
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264 1 |a New Haven :  |b Yale University Press in association with the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens,  |c [2017] 
300 |a 1 online resource (xiii, 226 pages) :  |b 154 illustrations (chiefly colored), maps 
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500 |a 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. 
500 |a "Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation." 
500 |a "Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, Latin American & Latino Art in LA"--Title page verso. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a "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"--Publisher's description. 
586 |a Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries (CBHL) Annual Literature Award Nominee, 2018 
588 |a Description based on print record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on August 3, 2021). 
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650 0 |a Natural history in art  |v Exhibitions. 
651 0 |a Latin America  |v In art  |v Exhibitions. 
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651 0 |a Europe  |x Relations  |z Latin America  |v Exhibitions. 
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