Wild Visions - Wilderness as Image and Idea (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Yale University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2022
Authors:	Ben A. Minteer • Mark Klett • Stephen J. Pyne
Foreword by:	Roderick Frazier Nash
Dimensions:	191 x 254 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-300-26072-4
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Photographic collections > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes > General
LSN:	0-300-26072-5
Barcode:	9780300260724

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