Visible empire : botanical expeditions & visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment / Daniela Bleichmar.
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Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2012.
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Physical Description: | xii, 286 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 26 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- 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.