Screen LibraryWild visions : wilderness as image and idea /
A combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time. Our ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one hundred and fifty years, from a view of wild country as an inviolable "place apart" to one that exis...
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Yale University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | New Haven, CT : |
| Publication Dates: | [2022] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
A combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time. Our ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one hundred and fifty years, from a view of wild country as an inviolable "place apart" to one that exists only within the matrix of human activity. This shift in understanding has provoked questions about the importance of the wild in American environmentalism, as well as new aesthetic expectations as we reframe the wilderness as (to some degree) a human creation. This book portrays wilderness instead as an evolving gamut of understandings, a collage of views and ideas that is still in process. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 237 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 x 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300260724 0300260725 |
| Index Number: | QH76 |
| CLC: | J434(712) |
| Call Number: | J434(712)/M667 |
| Contents: |
Foreword -- Overlook -- Layout -- Picture -- Print -- Discovery, Documentation, Defense -- 1. Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), Emigrants Crossing the Plains, 1867 (Oil on canvas, 60 × 96 inches, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City) -- Creation Story -- From Grand Manner to Grand Canyons -- Visual Art as Reportage and Advocacy -- The Power of the Wild -- Cropping the Narrative -- Wilderness Movement as Historical Moment -- Effect on Federal Lands -- Rupture, Reconfiguration -- 37. Robert Adams, Mobile Homes, Jefferson County, Colorado, 1973 -- Wrecked Wild? Considering the "Man-Altered" Landscape -- Edward Abbey's Wild Visions -- Wilderness as Paradox -- Cultivating Wildness -- Rethinking, Remaking -- From the Wilderness to the Wild -- The Storied Wild -- Managed Wild: Cloud and Smoke -- The De-Facto Wild -- New Ways of Seeing -- Notes. |