Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

During the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing, and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded...
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Author: Ernesto Capello
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Language: English
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Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas by Capello, Ernesto

Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

$199.88

Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas

$199.88
Author: Ernesto Capello
Format: Paperback
Language: English

During the nineteenth century, gridding, graphing, and surveying proliferated as never before as nations and empires expanded into hitherto unknown territories. Though nominally geared toward justifying territorial claims and collecting scientific data, expeditions also produced vast troves of visual and artistic material. This book considers the explosion of expeditionary mapping and its links to visual culture across the Americas, arguing that acts of measurement are also aesthetic acts. Such visual interventions intersect with new technologies, with sociopolitical power and conflict, and with shifting public tastes and consumption practices. Several key questions shape this examination: What kinds of nineteenth-century visual practices and technologies of seeing do these materials engage? How does scientific knowledge get translated into the visual and disseminated to the public? What are the commonalities and distinctions in mapping strategies between North and South America? How does the constitution of expeditionary lines reorder space and the natural landscape itself? The volume represents the first transnational and hemispheric analysis of nineteenth-century cartographic aesthetics, and features the multi-disciplinary perspective of historians, geographers, and art historians.



Author: Ernesto Capello
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 08/01/2022
Pages: 250
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780367350260

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