Geography of the Gaze: Urban and Rural Vision in Early Modern Europe - Couverture rigide

Dubbini, Renzo

 
9780226167367: Geography of the Gaze: Urban and Rural Vision in Early Modern Europe
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ISBN 10 : 0226167364 ISBN 13 : 9780226167367
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2002

Synopsis

Geography of the Gaze offers a new history and theory of how the way we look at things influences what we see. Focusing on Western Europe from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, Renzo Dubbini shows how developments in science, art, mapping, and visual epistemology affected the ways natural and artificial landscapes were perceived and portrayed.

He begins with the idea of the "view," explaining its role in the invention of landscape painting and in the definition of landscape as a cultural space. Among other topics, Dubbini explores how the descriptive and pictorial techniques used in mariners' charts, view-oriented atlases, military cartography, and garden design were linked to the proliferation of highly realistic paintings of landscapes and city scenes; how the "picturesque" system for defining and composing landscapes affected not just art but also archaeology and engineering; and how the ever-changing modern cityscapes inspired new ways of seeing and representing the urban scene in Impressionist painting, photography, and stereoscopy. A marvelous history of viewing, Geography of the Gaze will interest everyone from scientists to artists.

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À propos des auteurs

Renzo Dubbini is a professor in the Istituto di Architettura at the University of Venice. He is the author of Architettura delle prigioni: I luoghi e il tempo della punizione (1700-1880).

Lydia G. Cochrane has translated many books, including most recently The Myth of Pope Joan by Alain Boureau.

Lydia G. Cochrane has translated numerous books for the University of Chicago Press.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226167364
ISBN 13 
9780226167367
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780226167374: Geography of the Gaze: Urban and Rural Vision in Early Modern Europe

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ISBN 10 :  0226167372 ISBN 13 :  9780226167374
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2002
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