Picturing Tropical Nature

Picturing Tropical Nature
Author: Nancy Stepan
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Total Pages: 296
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
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Tropical nature' is to a great extent a Western imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs and diagrams. Nancy Leys Stepan critically examines this construct, in order to remedy the persistent historic misrepresentation of the tropics and its peoples.


Picturing Tropical Nature
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Nancy Stepan
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher:

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Tropical nature' is to a great extent a Western imaginative construct, conveyed in literature, travel writing, drawings, paintings, photographs and diagrams. Na
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A beautifully illustrated look at the aesthetics and implications of the visual images used to sell Jamaica and the Bahamas to tourists as "tropical paradises"
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