This fascinating book examines the particular importance of cities in Spanish and Hispanic-American culture as well as the different meanings that artists and cartographers invested in their depiction of New and Old Wold cities and towns. Kagan maintains that cities are both built human structures and human communities, and that representations of the urban form reflect both points of view. He discusses the peculiar character of Spain's empire of towns; the history and development of the cityscape as an independent artistic ...
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This fascinating book examines the particular importance of cities in Spanish and Hispanic-American culture as well as the different meanings that artists and cartographers invested in their depiction of New and Old Wold cities and towns. Kagan maintains that cities are both built human structures and human communities, and that representations of the urban form reflect both points of view. He discusses the peculiar character of Spain's empire of towns; the history and development of the cityscape as an independent artistic genre, both in Europe and the Americas; the interaction between European and native mapping traditions; differences between European maps of urban America and those produced by local residents, whether native or creole; and the urban iconography of four different New World towns. Lavishly illustrated with a variety of maps, pictures, and plans, many reproduced here for the first time, this interdisciplinary study will be of interest to general readers and to specialists in art history, cartography, history, urbanism, and related fields.
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Near Fine Plus in Near Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Hardcover in dust jacket., one small, closed edge-tear to dj back panel. minor impact. no other flaws-clean, tight binding, no writing or markings. no bumps, clips..; x-235pp., illustrated throughout in color, some b/w.
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Near Fine in very good + jacket. 4to. x, 236 pp. Bound in black boards, in illustrated dust jacket. Full-color and black and white illustrations throughout. Includes bibliography and index. Near Fine, bright, clean copy with minor bump to tail of spine, in Very Good+ dust jacket with 1/2" tear to head of spine, scarring to rear cover.
