Visible empire : botanical expeditions & visual culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment / Daniela Bleichmar.

  • Bleichmar, Daniela, 1973-
Date:
2012
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Physical description

xii, 286 pages : illustrations (mostlycol.) ; 26 cm

Contents

Introduction: natural history and visual culture in the Spanish empire -- A botanical reconquista -- Natural history and visual epistemology -- Painting as exploration -- Economic botany and the limits of the visual -- Visions of imperial nature: global white space, local color -- Conclusion: the empire as an image machine.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-271) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    AQ /BLE
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ISBN

  • 9780226058535
  • 0226058530