Archive style : photographs & illustrations for U.S. surveys, 1850-1890 /
This imaginative study of American visual culture reveals how the political predicaments of a few small bureaucracies once fostered pictures of an extraordinary style. U.S. geographical and geological surveys of the late nineteenth century produced photographs and drawings of topography, American In...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2007.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18799914 |
| Summary: | This imaginative study of American visual culture reveals how the political predicaments of a few small bureaucracies once fostered pictures of an extraordinary style. U.S. geographical and geological surveys of the late nineteenth century produced photographs and drawings of topography, American Indians, geologic features, botanical specimens, and specialists at work in the field. Some of these pictures have long been celebrated for their anticipation of a modernist aesthetic, but Robin Kelsey, in this abundantly illustrated volume, traces their modernistic qualities to archival ingenuity. Th. |
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| Item Description: | "Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation"--Preliminary page. "Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts imprint"--Preliminary page. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520933281 9780520933286 0520420845 9780520420847 9780520249356 0520249356 |