Voyage into Substance
Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760-1840
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4486822 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Allen (0000-0002-6205-3031), John L Allen |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 75 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 236 |
| Publication date | 1985-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Voyage into substance: Art, Science, Nature, and the Illustrated Travel Account, 1760-1840, Barbara Maria Stafford, 1984 |
| Venue | Geographical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7428 • E-ISSN: 1931-0846 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/214479 |
| OpenAlex | W2038178414 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Voyage into Substance reopens the whole complex question of how nature was perceived and penetrated during the Enlightenment--a time when artist-scientists trekked across Egyptian deserts, astronomer-mariners navigated the Polar seas, and meteorologist-aeronauts sailed through the atmosphere's waves, all seeking to discover and record the non-human likeness of the phenomenal world.By examining the popular, multi-national illustrated narratives and atlases of the period, the book relates the voyagers' attentive, firsthand mode of seeing and precise copying of the enduring and the ephemeral features of the environment (before the advent of photography) to the major philosophical, scientific, and aesthetic debates of the time. Arguing that these accounts disclose an anti-Picturesque tradition of representation, the book opens new doors to establish the persistence of a plain, that is, a style of landscape depiction that culminates in 19th-century realism.Voyage into Substance analyzes a vast repertory of geological, mineralogical and biological treatises concerning the self-expressive physiognomy of the earth and shows them to be important precursors and allies of the non-fictional travel narrative. Intertwining art, literature, philosophy, geography, and the history of science, with the aid of 304 plates, the book adds significantly to all these disciplines and is a unique contribution to the field of art and architectural history as well as to modern intellectual history.Publication of this book was partially funded by the Millard Meiss Fund of the College Art Association of America and by the National Endowment for the Humanities
Art history · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · History · History of Science and Natural History
Sobre a Necesidade De Se Perguntar De Que Forma, Exatamente, a Geografia É Visual
The Original Scene of Anthropology
Patagonia
O Catálogo Fundamentado Da Obra De J. M. Rugendas
História da arte e imagens que não são arte
En busqueda del paraiso perdido
Interrelationships of the Arts, Sciences and Technology
Scotland and the Fictions of Geography
The Cambridge History of English Literature, 1660–1780
The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies
Dryden and the poetic career
More is different
Re Reading the Encyclopedia
Between Documentation and Dispossession
‘A Desire of Preserving the Remembrance’
Empty Spaces
Taking Spectacle Seriously
Natural History collecting and the Biogeographical tradition
Travel as Performed Art
Les origines d’un modèle touristique
Livros de viagem do Oitocentos e a fabricação do Oriente
Writing the Northern Expedition, 1785–1793
The Sukotyro
Romantic Systematics and the Genealogy of Thought
An attempt to trace illusions to their physical causes’
Imago Mundi
An Ægyptian darknesse”
Early Modern Travellers in the Aegean
On the Need to Ask How, Exactly, Is Geography “Visual”
Regarding Derrida
Naturalism’ and the interpretation of cave art
Environmental conditioning
Recovering post-colonial tropicalities from a “fervid inflorescence” of metaphor
Distant Views
New presbyter or old priest? Reconsidering zoological taxonomy in Britain, 1750—1840
Introduction
More calculated to mislead than inform’
Images of the natural (and social) universe in Rétif De La Bretonne’s La découverte australe
Marvelous Excesses
Carl Linnaeus, Erasmus Darwin and Anna Seward
The Imperial Sublime
Painting as Exploration
On the colonial frontier
Travels into print
The Subverted Gaze
George Finlay in Egypt and Switzerland
It is easy making a lie; the contradicting of which the next day will make another paragraph”
Mobility and War
Cultural Geography I
Postcards and Frontier Mythologies
Modos de ser em modos de ver
Bluestocking Feminism and British-German Cultural Transfer, 1750-1837
Nature and Scientific Knowledge in the Spanish Empire Introduction
Travel and Cultural Understanding
Bernard Picart's Etchings of Amsterdam's Jews
The Theatricality of History Making and the Paradoxes of Acting
The significance of 18-th century literature about the Pacific for the development of travel literature
Guarnan Poma between the Arts of Europe and the Andes
Creativity and Geography
Expeditionary Art
Humboldt and the Habitability of Canada's Great Northwest
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |