Looking close and seeing far : Samuel Seymour, Titian Ramsay Peale, and the art of the Long Expedition, 1818-1823 /
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Author / Creator: | Haltman, Kenneth, 1957- |
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Imprint: | University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. |
Description: | xxv, 278 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 27 cm. |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7094314 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Figures in a Western Landscape
- Samuel Seymour: Science and Imagination
- Managing Distance
- The Poetics of Geologic Reverie
- The Dream of Ethnological Connection
- Titian Ramsay Peale: Science and Selfhood
- Managing Nature
- The Art of Predatory Looking
- Natural History as Family History
- Conclusion: Looking Close and Seeing Far
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index