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Archive Style : Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890 /
This imaginative study of American visual culture reveals how the political predicaments of a few small bureaucracies once fostered pictures of an extraordinary style. U.S. geographical and geological surveys of the late nineteenth century produced photographs and drawings of topography, American In...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Kelsey, Robin, |d 1961- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Archive Style : |b Photographs and Illustrations for U.S. Surveys, 1850-1890 / |c Robin Kelsey. |
| 264 | 1 | |a Berkeley : |b University of California Press, |c 2007. | |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction : riddles and premises -- Arthur Schott : marking the Mexican boundary -- Timothy H. O'Sullivan : surveys of the American West -- C.C. Jones : the USGS investigation of the Charleston Earthquake -- Conclusion : archive style. | |
| 520 | |a This imaginative study of American visual culture reveals how the political predicaments of a few small bureaucracies once fostered pictures of an extraordinary style. U.S. geographical and geological surveys of the late nineteenth century produced photographs and drawings of topography, American Indians, geologic features, botanical specimens, and specialists at work in the field. Some of these pictures have long been celebrated for their anticipation of a modernist aesthetic, but Robin Kelsey, in this abundantly illustrated volume, traces their modernistic qualities to archival ingenuity. Th. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 7 | |a Geological surveys. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00940600 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING |x Surveying. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Phototopographie |x Histoire |y 19e siecle. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Photographic surveying |x History |y 19th century. | |
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