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

By: Publication details: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2012.Description: xii, 286 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780226058535 :
  • 0226058530 :
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QK21.S7 B54 2012
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.

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

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.

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