Visual Voyages

Author : Daniela Bleichmar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300224023

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Visual Voyages by Daniela Bleichmar Pdf

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.

Author : Eavan O'Dochartaigh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108834339

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Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages by Eavan O'Dochartaigh Pdf

Uncovering a wealth of archival information, Eavan O'Dochartaigh gives fresh and surprising insight into the Victorian image of the Arctic.

Author : Daniela Bleichmar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226058559

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Visible Empire by Daniela Bleichmar Pdf

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.

Author : Tony Rice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Natural history
ISBN : 0565094432

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Voyages of Discovery by Tony Rice Pdf

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.

Author : Christian Beamish
Publisher : Patagonia
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781938340116

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The Voyage of the Cormorant by Christian Beamish Pdf

Christian Beamish, a former editor at The Surfer’s Journal, envisioned a low-tech, self-reliant exploration for surf along the coast of North America, using primarily clothes and instruments available to his ancestors, and the 18-foot boat he would build by hand in his garage. How the vision met reality – and how the two came to shape each other – places Voyage of the Cormorant in the great American tradition of tales of life at sea, and what it has to teach us.

Author : Vincent Price
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781504042147

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I Like What I Know by Vincent Price Pdf

Published in 1959, this book is what Vincent Price called his “visual autobiography” — the story of his life through his 48th year as seen through the lens of his greatest passion, the visual arts. Peppered with lively stories about both his art collecting and advocacy as well as his career as an actor, I Like What I Know is written in an approachable and entertaining style, capturing what has drawn fans to Vincent Price throughout his distinguished 65-year-career and in the two decades since his death in 1993.

Author : Eavan O'Dochartaigh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 110899279X

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Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages by Eavan O'Dochartaigh Pdf

"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"--

Author : Gary Kamiya
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781635575897

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Spirits of San Francisco by Gary Kamiya Pdf

The bestselling book from two prizewinning, critically acclaimed contemporary chroniclers of San Francisco-a rich, illustrated, idiosyncratic portrait of this great city. In Spirits of San Francisco, #1 bestselling Cool Gray City of Love author Gary Kamiya joins forces with celebrated, bestselling artist Paul Madonna to take a fresh look at this one-of-a-kind city. Marrying image and text in a way no book about this city has done before, Kamiya's illuminating narratives accompany Madonna's masterful pen-and-ink drawings, breathing life into San Francisco sites both iconic and obscure. Paul Madonna's atmospheric images will awe: his wide-angle drawings offer a new perspective on the “crookedest street in the world” and vistas across the city. And Kamiya's engaging prose, accompanying each image, offers striking vignettes of this incredible city: witness his story of “Dumpville,” the bizarre community that sprang up in the 19th century on top of a massive garbage dump. Handsome and irresistible-much like the city it chronicles-Spirits of San Francisco is both a visual feast and a detailed, personal, loving, informed portrait of a beloved city.

Author : Jeffrey Ruoff
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0822337134

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Virtual Voyages by Jeffrey Ruoff Pdf

DIVThe different forms that travelogues have taken (documentaries, IMAX, home movies, ethnographic films) from the 1800s to the present./div

Author : Christian Isobel Johnstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1832
Category : America
ISBN : UVA:X001272482

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Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier by Christian Isobel Johnstone Pdf

Author : Matthew Solomon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438435824

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Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination by Matthew Solomon Pdf

"Best moving pictures I ever saw." Thus did one Vaudeville theater manager describe Georges Méliès's A Trip to the Moon [Le Voyage dans la lune], after it was screened for enthusiastic audiences in October 1902. Cinema's first true blockbuster, A Trip to the Moon still inspires such superlatives and continues to be widely viewed on DVD, on the Internet, and in countless film courses. In Fantastic Voyages of the Cinematic Imagination, leading film scholars examine Méliès's landmark film in detail, demonstrating its many crucial connecions to literature, popular culture, and visual culture of the time, as well as its long "afterlife" in more recent films, television, and music videos. Together, these essays make clear that Méliès was not only a major filmmaker but also a key figure in the emergence of modern spectacle and the birth of the modern cinematic imagination, and by bringing interdisciplinary methodologies of early cinema studies to bear on A Trip to the Moon, the contributors also open up much larger questions about aesthetics, media, and modernity. In his introduction, Matthew Solomon traces the convoluted provenance of the film's multiple versions and its key place in the historiography of cinema, and an appendix contains a useful dossier of primary-source documents that contextualize the film's production, along with translations of two major articles written by Méliès himself.

Author : Barbara Novak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 0199728437

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Voyages of the Self by Barbara Novak Pdf

Barbara Novak is one of America's premier art historians, the author of the seminal books American Painting of the Nineteenth Century and Nature and Culture, the latter of which was named one of the Ten Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, with Voyages of the Self, this esteemed critic completes the trilogy begun with the two earlier works, offering once again an exhilarating exploration of American art and culture. In this book, Novak explores several inspired pairings of key writers and painters, drawing insightful parallels between such masters as John Singleton Copley and Jonathan Edwards, Winslow Homer and William James, Frederic Edwin Church and Walt Whitman, and Jackson Pollock and Charles Olson. Through these and other groupings, Novak tracks the varied meanings of the self in America, in which the most salient characteristics of each artist or writer is shown to draw from--and in turn influence--the larger map of American life. Two major threads weaving through the book are the American preoccupation with the "object" and our continuing return to pragmatism. Novak notes for instance how Copley's art mirrors the puritan denial of self found in Jonathan Edwards and how as colonial scientists they share an interest in sensation and observation. She sees Winslow Homer and William James as practitioners of a pragmatic self grounded in an immediate experience that looks for concrete results. Through such fruitful comparisons--whether between Copley and Edwards, or Lane and Emerson, or Ryder and Dickinson--Novak sheds unmatched light on our nation's artistic heritage. Wonderfully illustrated with dozens of black-and-white pictures and sixteen full-color plates, here is a stunning work that yields a wealth of insight into American art and culture--and concludes Novak's landmark trilogy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Scholastic Reference
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : 0590476483

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What the Painter Sees by Anonim Pdf

An interactive introduction to famous painters and their works of art invites young enthusiasts to see art from a creator's perspective with tracing paper, a distortion mirror, and a mix-and-match section.

Author : Xavier de Maistre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044021092689

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A Nocturnal Expedition Round My Room by Xavier de Maistre Pdf

Author : Sydney Parkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1773
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000120730

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A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in His Majesty's Ship by Sydney Parkinson Pdf