Geography and vision : seeing, imagining and representing the world / / Denis Cosgrove
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| Autore: |
Cosgrove Denis E.
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| Titolo: |
Geography and vision : seeing, imagining and representing the world / / Denis Cosgrove
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2008 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 304.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Art and geography |
| Geographical perception | |
| Human geography | |
| Geography | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-248) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Landscape, map and vision; Part I: Geographic and cosmological visions; Chapter 1: Geography and Vision; Chapter 2: Extra-terrestrial geography; Part II: Landscape Visions: Europe; Chapter 3: Gardening the Renaissance world; Chapter 4: Mapping Arcadia; Part III: Landscape Visions: America; Chapter 5: Measures of America; Chapter 6: Wilderness, habitable earth and the nation; Part IV: John Ruskin: vision, landscape and mapping; Chapter 7: The morphological eye; Chapter 8: Ruskin's European visions |
| Part V: Cartographic visionsChapter 9: Moving Maps; Chapter 10: Carto-city; Part VI: Metageographic visions; Chapter 11: Seeing the Pacific; Chapter 12: Seeing the Equator; Notes; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "Leading geographer Denis Cosgrove provides a series of personal reflections on the complex connections between seeing, imagining and representing the world geographically. In a series of eloquent essays he draws upon pictorial images - including maps, sketches, cartoons, paintings, and photographs - to explore and elaborate upon the many and varied ways in which the vast and varied earth, and at times the heavens beyond, have been both imagined and represented as a place of human habitation. The essays include reflections upon geographical discovery; urban cartography and utopian visions; ideas of landscape and the shaping of America; wilderness and masculinity; conceptions of the Pacific; and the imaginative grip of the Equator. Extensively illustrated, this engaging work reveals the richness of the geographical imagination as expressed over the past five centuries."--Bloomsbury publishing. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Geography & vision |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Geography and vision |
| ISBN: | 9786612642746 |
| 9780755620791 | |
| 0755620798 | |
| 9781282642744 | |
| 128264274X | |
| 9781435699960 | |
| 1435699963 | |
| 9780857712905 | |
| 085771290X | |
| 9786000012069 | |
| 6000012063 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910965925903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
International library of human geography ; ; 12.