Visual voyages [electronic resource] : images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin / Daniela Bleichmar.

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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 e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973- (Author)
Corporate Authors: Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press in association with The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, [2017]
Subjects:
Natural history illustration > Latin America > Exhibitions.
Natural history > Latin America > Pictorial works > Exhibitions.
Scientific expeditions > Latin America > Exhibitions.
Natural history in art > Exhibitions.
Latin America > In art > Exhibitions.
Latin America > Relations > Europe > Exhibitions.
Europe > Relations > Latin America > Exhibitions.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Pictorial works
In art
Online Access:
A&AePortal: 2017
Variant Title:
Images of Latin American nature from Columbus to Darwin
Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Foreword / Catherine Hess
  • Introduction
  • Rewriting the book of nature
  • The value of nature
  • Collecting: from wonder to order
  • New landscapes
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index
  • Illustration credits.