Archive style : photographs & illustrations for U.S. surveys, 1850-1890 / Robin Kelsey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelsey, Robin, 1961-

Contributor:

Getty Foundation.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photographic surveying--History--19th century.

Photographic surveying.

Geological surveys--United States--History--19th century.

Geological surveys.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xii, 273 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2007]

Summary:

"Robin Kelsey's "Archive Style" is by far the most stimulating, imaginative, and far-reaching study of nineteenth-century American visual culture I have come across in recent years. Drawing upon a wealth of research as well as recent advances in critical theory, Kelsey persuasively reconstructs the historical conditions that in large measure determined the production and reception of survey imagery."--Alan Wallach, Professor of Art and Art History and Professor of American Studies, The College of William and Mary

Contents:

Introduction : riddles and premises

Arthur Schott : marking the Mexican boundary

Timothy H. O'Sullivan : surveys of the American West

C.C. Jones : the USGS investigation of the Charleston Earthquake

Conclusion : archive style.

Notes:

"Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation"--P. facing t.p.

"Ahmanson-Murphy fine arts imprint"--Prelim. p.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9780520249356

0520249356

OCLC:

76481432

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