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Landscape in American Guides and View Books
Visual History of Touring and Travel
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2012
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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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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-7608-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-7609-2
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
146
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter 01. The Guidebook and the View Book No access Pages 17 - 46
Chapter 02. Pictorial and Scenic Thinking No access Pages 47 - 72
Chapter 03. Collective Vision and Landscape Transformation No access Pages 73 - 96
Chapter 04. Landscape Commentary No access Pages 97 - 130
