1st Edition
Cartographic Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
1. Introduction: The Expeditionary Impulse
Ernesto Capello and Julia B. Rosenbaum
Part I: Seeing and Not Seeing
2. Alexander von Humboldt: The Aesthetic Science of Landscape Pictures
Alicia Lubowski-Jahn
3. Triangulating the View: Art and the Great Surveys of the American West in the 1870s
Joni L. Kinsey
4. Cartographic Representation in the Age of Vernacular Landscape: Pictorial Metaphor in Stephen Long’s Map of the Country Drained by the Mississippi (1822)
Kenneth Haltman
5. Seeing Solitary Deserts Full of People: The Chorographic Commission in Colombia’s Eastern Plains, 1856
Nancy P. Appelbaum
Part II: Lines and Tracings
6. Intervisible Border: Photographs and Monuments Along the US-Mexico Boundary
Katherine G. Morrissey
7. "Visual Expeditions" Supporting Geopolitical Vindications: Maps, Photographs and Other Visual Devices in the Diplomatic Dispute over the Andes as a Natural Border (1900)
Carla Lois
8. Female Eyes on South America: Maria Graham in Brazil
Katherine Manthorne
9. Science, Wonder, and Tourism in the Early Mapping of Yellowstone National Park
James R. Akerman
Part III: Art and the Expeditionary Impulse
10. Delineating Land: Art, Mapping, and the Work of Frederic Edwin Church
Julia B. Rosenbaum
11. Albert Operti: An Arctic Historical Painter and the Popular Sublime
Ernesto Capello
Biography
Ernesto Capello is Professor of History at Macalester College.
Julia B. Rosenbaum is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College.
