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Geography of the Gaze

Renzo Dubbini
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      Geography of the Gaze offers a new history and theory of how the way we look at things influences what we see. Focusing on Western Europe from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, Renzo Dubbini shows how developments in science, art, mapping, and visual epistemology affected the ways natural and artificial landscapes were perceived and portrayed. He begins with the idea of the "view," explaining its role in the invention of landscape painting and in the definition of landscape as a cultural space. Among other topics, Dubbini explores how the descriptive and pictorial techniques used in mariners' charts, view-oriented atlases, military cartography, and garden design were linked to the proliferation of highly realistic paintings of landscapes and city scenes; how the "picturesque" system for defining and composing landscapes affected not just art but also archaeology and engineering; and how the ever-changing modern cityscapes inspired new ways of seeing and representing the urban scene in Impressionist painting, photography, and stereoscopy. A marvelous history of viewing, Geography of the Gaze will interest everyone from scientists to artists.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Renzo Dubbini EAN: 9780226167367 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-04-15 CITY: GENRE: ART / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      Western Europe, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Theory of art, History of art, Nature in art

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      Renzo Dubbini is a professor in the Istituto di Architettura at the University of Venice. He is the author of Architettura delle prigioni: I luoghi e il tempo della punizione (1700-1880). Lydia G. Cochrane has translated many books, including most recently The Myth of Pope Joan by Alain Boureau.
      Geography of the Gaze offers a new history and theory of how the way we look at things influences what we see. Focusing on Western Europe from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, Renzo Dubbini shows how developments in science, art, mapping, and visual epistemology affected the ways natural and artificial landscapes were perceived and portrayed. He begins with the idea of the "view," explaining its role in the invention of landscape painting and in the definition of landscape as a cultural space. Among other topics, Dubbini explores how the descriptive and pictorial techniques used in mariners' charts, view-oriented atlases, military cartography, and garden design were linked to the proliferation of highly realistic paintings of landscapes and city scenes; how the "picturesque" system for defining and composing landscapes affected not just art but also archaeology and engineering; and how the ever-changing modern cityscapes inspired new ways of seeing and representing the urban scene in Impressionist painting, photography, and stereoscopy. A marvelous history of viewing, Geography of the Gaze will interest everyone from scientists to artists.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Renzo Dubbini EAN: 9780226167367 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 0 g HEIGHT: 0 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: The University of Chicago Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2002-04-15 CITY: GENRE: ART / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban WIDTH: 0 cm SPINE:

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      Western Europe, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Theory of art, History of art, Nature in art

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      Renzo Dubbini is a professor in the Istituto di Architettura at the University of Venice. He is the author of Architettura delle prigioni: I luoghi e il tempo della punizione (1700-1880). Lydia G. Cochrane has translated many books, including most recently The Myth of Pope Joan by Alain Boureau.

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