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Chargement... Empire's Nature: Mark Catesby's New World Visionpar Amy R. W. Meyers
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The authors of the articles in this book make a bold attempt at rehabilitating the reputation of a little known artist-naturalist from the colonial period: Mark Catesby. The pictures are amazing, but some of the points the authors make stray too far from Catesby's vaunted vision. They talk of his patrons, his techniques, and his (I'm paraphrasing) attempt to "conquer" nature and "bring it under the imperial dominion" by drawing it and describing it and naming it. Bullcrap if you ask me. Still, you can find gems amongst the chaff. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Completed in 1747, Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands was the first major illustrated publication on the flora and fauna of Britain's American colonies. Together with his Hortus Britanno-Americanus (1763), which detailed plant species that might be transplanted successfully to British soil, Catesby's Natural History exerted an important, though often overlooked, influence on the development of art, natural history, and scientific observation in the eighteenth century. Inspired by a major traveling exhibition of Catesby's watercolor drawings from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, this collection of interdisciplinary essays considers Catesby's endeavors as a naturalist-artist, scientific explorer, experimental horticulturist, ornamental gardener, and early environmental thinker in terms of the interests held by the various, overlapping communities in which he functioned--particularly as those interests related to the British colonial enterprise. The contributors are David R. Brigham, Joyce E. Chaplin, Mark Laird, Amy R. W. Meyers, Therese O'Malley, and Margaret Beck Pritchard. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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