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Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction : Europe and Its Colonial Networks, 1780-1850.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Rourke, Stephanie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- O'Rourke, Stephanie, 1986-.
- Landscapes in art.
- Mineral industries in art.
- Local Subjects:
- O'Rourke, Stephanie, 1986-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- O'Rourke argues that artistic representations played a pivotal role in shaping how people thought about the natural world during the Industrial Revolution.In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, European artists confronted the emergence of a new way of thinking about and treating the Earth and its resources.
- Contents:
- The French landscape and the colonial forest
- Mining romanticism and the abyss of time
- How to scale a volcano
- Human resources.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-84156-1
- 9780226841564
- OCLC:
- 1559863866
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