Description: Title: Sketching Splendor: American Natural History, 1750-1850 Author: Majeski, Anna Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press Binding: Paperback Pages: 112 Dimensions: 10.30h x 7.90w x 0.30d Product Weight: 1.35 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9781606180402 Sketching Splendor examines the work of three American naturalists, William Bartram, Titian Ramsay Peale, and John James Audubon whose work exemplifies innovation and injustice in equal measure. The exhibition draws on the American Philosophical Society's rich holdings as well as select loans, with many objects exhibited together for the first time. The careers of Bartram, Peale, and Audubon spanned the exciting period from 1750 to 1850, helping to shape the nation's emerging intellectual identity, cataloging species unknown to Euro-Americans, engaging with the nascent concepts of ecology and evolution, as well as developing new techniques to visually and verbally represent the complexity of the natural world. Yet natural history was not an innocent intellectual pursuit, and these three naturalists also supported expansionist agendas dispossessing Native Nations and relied on enslaved labor. Moreover, while the names of Bartram, Peale, and Audubon are commemorated in the historical record, there were many unacknowledged or underacknowledged Native Americans, people of African descent, and women, whose knowledge, labor, and skills made their work possible. These are the two realities that this exhibition engages, teasing out the many ways in which Bartram, Peale, and Audubon relied on and promoted the forces of colonization and plantation slavery, even as it acknowledges points of ambivalence. Their work speaks to the conflicted nature of our nation's early history and the place of natural historians in that complex landscape. Authorized Dealer Ships Fast From The USA! Stock Photo- Actual Book Cover May Vary
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Book Title: Sketching Splendor : American Natural History, 1750-1850
Number of Pages: 112 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Topic: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Natural History, American / General, Life Sciences / Biology
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.4 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Art, Science, History
Item Weight: 18.9 Oz
Author: Anna Majeski
Item Length: 11 in
Item Width: 8.6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
