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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1. Verfasser: Bleichmar, Daniela (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: 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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-271) and index
Beschreibung:XII, 286 S.
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25 cm
ISBN:9780226058535
978-0-226-05853-5
0226058530
0-226-05853-0