Umfang:
Online Ressource (xvi, 320 p.)
,
ill. (some col.)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9781442674103
,
1442674105
Inhalt:
"The use of images as evidence in historical writing has been largely neglected by historians, though recent interest in the importance of visualization in scientific literature has led to a reappraisal of their value. In Drawn from Life, Victoria Dickenson uncovers a vast pictorial tradition of 'scientific illustration' that reveals how artists and writers from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth century portrayed the natural history and landscape of North America to European readers." "Dickenson undertakes a close reading of the images created by European artists, most of whom had never seen North America, and unravels the threads that linked the images to the curiosities and specimens that reached the Old World."--Jacket
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-299) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
0802042252
Weitere Ausg.:
0802080731
Weitere Ausg.:
9780802042255
Weitere Ausg.:
9780802080738
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9780802042255
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Dickenson, Victoria Drawn from life Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1998
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
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