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Landscape in American Guides and View Books - Visual History of Touring and Travel (Paperback)
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Landscape in American Guides and View Books - Visual History of Touring and Travel (Paperback)
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Landscape in American Guides and View Books: Visual History of
Touring and Travel is vested in the American relationship to
landscape and the role guidebooks and view books played in touring
and travel experiences, including immigration. Early in the history
of the republic, the relationship to landscape turns visual, that
is, landscapes inspire artistic responses in the form of written
descriptions and visual representations. The predominant element is
the scene. From the 1820s on scenic thinking, within an emerging
industrial economy, characterizes a major cultural and social
development. As immigration increases, within the country and from
abroad, publishers and trade groups create souvenir guidebooks and
view books to facilitate the movement of people, and to encourage
economic expansion and tourism. Guide and view book analysis
centers on pictures of landscape transformations and includes the
cultural basis of scenes changing from pastoral and picturesque
expressions to the documentation of managed views. The general
acceptance of managed views as replacements for romantic ones
illustrates a commitment to landscapes that denote utility and the
influence of commercial and industrial urban centers on American
life. Guidebook and view book imagery, composed of durable schemas,
promotes visual thinking across social classes and time. The
primary medium for souvenirs is the photograph, which printing
methods, like photolithography, transform into printed products.
The visual history of touring and travel is part of America s first
visual culture, as well as the social formation of landscape, the
emergence of a collective vision among souvenir producers and
consumers, and the role visual information plays in landscape
commentary, which is the literary context for printed souvenirs."
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