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Drawn from Life : Science and Art in the Portrayal of the New World /
"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 o...
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| Langue: | Inglés |
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Buffalo :
University of Toronto Press,
1998.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Introduction: The Bittern from Hudson's-Bay
- Ch. 1. Emblematic Animals. Glimpses of the New World: Early Maps of North America. Marks and Emblems: Claiming a New World. Words into Pictures: The Su, the Bison, and the Simivulpa
- Ch. 2. Naturalism and the Counterfeit of Nature. The Development of Naturalism. The Representation as Counterfeit. Translating the Image: The Value of Repeated Pictorial Statement
- Ch. 3. The Living Image. Cornut and the Canadensium Plantarum. The Herbal Tradition. The Sea of Simples. The Book of God's Works: The Garden in Print. Cornut and Charlevoix
- Ch. 4. The Redefinition of Landscape. ... a vast and prodigious Cadence of Water. The Conventions of Landscape. The Deer Park. The Imposition of Order.