Actions for Wild visions : wilderness as image and idea

Email RIS file
Bookmark
Report an Issue

Wild visions : wilderness as image and idea / Ben A. Minteer, Mark Klett, and Stephen J. Pyne ; foreword by Roderick Frazier Nash

Author
Minteer, Ben A., 1969-
Published
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]
Copyright Date
©2022
Physical Description
viii, 237 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 20 x 26 cm
Additional Creators
Klett, Mark, 1952-, Pyne, Stephen J., 1949-, and Nash, Roderick

Availability

Browse Nearby on Shelf
I Want It
I Want It

Finding items...

Contents
Frontmatter -- 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.
Summary
"A stunning 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 complicated 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. Wild Visions is distinctive in its union of landscape photography and environmental thought, a merging of short, thematic essays with a striking visual narrative. Often, the wild is viewed in binary terms: either revered as sacred and ecologically pure or dismissed as spoiled by human activities. This book portrays wilderness instead as an evolving gamut of understandings, a collage of views and ideas that is still in process"--Publisher's website.
Subject(s)
Genre(s)
ISBN
9780300260724 hardcover
0300260725 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Endowment Note
Benzak Foundation American Environmental History Collections Endowment at the Penn State Libraries
View MARC record | catkey: 39335955