Visible empire botanical expeditions & visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment
Introduction: natural history and visual culture in the Spanish empire -- A botanical reconquista -- Natural history and visual epistemology -- Painting as exploration -- Economic botany and the limits of the visual -- Visions of imperial nature: global white space, local color -- Conclusion: the em...
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Sprache: | eng |
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Chicago u.a.
The Univ. of Chicago Press
2012
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Zusammenfassung: | Introduction: natural history and visual culture in the Spanish empire -- A botanical reconquista -- Natural history and visual epistemology -- Painting as exploration -- Economic botany and the limits of the visual -- Visions of imperial nature: global white space, local color -- Conclusion: the empire as an image machine. Introduction: natural history and visual culture in the Spanish empire -- A botanical reconquista -- Natural history and visual epistemology -- Painting as exploration -- Economic botany and the limits of the visual -- Visions of imperial nature: global white space, local color -- Conclusion: the empire as an image machine |
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-271) and index |
Beschreibung: | XII, 286 S. zahlr. Ill., Kt. 25 cm |
ISBN: | 9780226058535 978-0-226-05853-5 0226058530 0-226-05853-0 |