Visual voyages : images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin / Daniela Bleichmar.
Visual voyages : images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin / Daniela Bleichmar.
Visual voyages : images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin / Daniela Bleichmar.
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Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press in association with The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, [2017]
Call Numbers
GQ 2018/0967
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiii, 226 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 29 cm
Content type
text
still image
cartographic image
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Publication information
Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press in association with The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, [2017]
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
[2017]
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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 s...
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Visual voyages : images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin / Daniela Bleichmar.
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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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-218) and index....
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GQ 2018/0967
Record Identifier
74VKV87a54Pd
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV87a54Pd
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ISBN
0300224028 hardcover
9780300224023 hardcover
DDC
704.943
MMS ID
991024188450102626
