Main entry:

Cosgrove, Denis E.

Title & Author:

Geography and vision : seeing, imagining and representing the world / Denis Cosgrove.

Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Description:

xi, 256 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Series:

International library of human geography ; v. 12

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-248) and index.
Geography and vision -- Extra-terrestrial geography -- Gardening the Renaissance world -- Mapping Arcadia -- Measures of America -- Wilderness, habitable earth and the nation -- The morphological eye -- Ruskin's European visions -- Moving maps -- Carto-city -- Seeing the Pacific -- Seeing the equator.

Summary:

"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."--From publisher description.

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ISBN:

9781850438465 (HB)
1850438463 (HB)
9781850438472 (PB)
1850438471 (PB)

Subject:

Ruskin, John 1819-1900
Geographical perception.
Human geography.
Art and geography.
Perception géographique.
Art et géographie.
74.03 methods and techniques of (human) geography.
Gartenkunst
Karte
Landschaftsbild
Anthropogeografie
Geografie
Illustration
Kartografie
Landschaft
Umweltwahrnehmung
Landscapes.
Maps (geography)
Visualisation.
Geography.
Landscape.

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History (form)

Added entries:

International library of human geography ; 12.

Geography & vision
Seeing, imagining and representing the world

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259584
Call No.: BIB 190492
Status: Available