Geography and Vision
Seeing, Imagining and Representing the World
1st Edition
Published on 25. November 2012
272 pages
978-0-85771-290-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Approx. 40 b/w plus 4pp.colour
File size
5,34 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-85771-290-5 (9780857712905)
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Person
Denis Cosgrove is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Geography at the University of California Los Angeles. A founding editor of the journal Ecumene (now Cultural Geographies ), his previous books include The Palladian Landscape (1993), Social Formations and Symbolic Landscape (2nd edn 1998), Mappings (editor, 1999) and Apollo's Eye (2001), which won the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award in Geography & Earth Sciences. He is co-editor, with Veronica della Dora, of High Places: Cultural GeographiesGeographies of Mountains and Ice (I.B.Tauris, forthcoming).
Content
- 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-terrestial 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 visions
- Chapter 9: Moving Maps
- Chapter 10: Carto-city
- Part VI: Metageographic visions
- Chapter 11: Seeing the Pacific
- Chapter 12: Seeing the Equator
- Notes
- Index
