Wild Visions: Wilderness as Image and Idea

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https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300260724 A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time Our ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one hundred and fifty years, from a view of wild country as an inviolable “place apart” to one that exists only within the matrix of human activity. This shift in understanding has provoked complicated questions about the importance of the wild in American environmentalism, as well as new aesthetic expectations as we reframe the wilderness as (to some degree) a human creation. Wild Visions is distinctive in its union of landscape photography and environmental thought, a merging of short, thematic essays with a striking visual narrative. Often, the wild is viewed in binary terms: either revered as sacred and ecologically pure or dismissed as spoiled by human activities. This book portrays wilderness instead as an evolving gamut of understandings, a collage of views and ideas that is still in process. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Contents FOREWORD Overlook LAYOUT PICTURE PRINT Discovery, Documentation, Defense CREATION STORY FROM GRAND MANNER TO GRAND CANYONS VISUAL ART AS REPORTAGE AND ADVOCACY About the Gallery THE POWER OF THE WILD About the Gallery CROPPING THE NARRATIVE WILDERNESS MOVEMENT AS HISTORICAL MOMENT About the Gallery EFFECT ON FEDERAL LANDS Rupture, Reconfiguration WRECKED WILD? CONSIDERING THE "MAN-ALTERED" LANDSCAPE About the Gallery EDWARD ABBEY'S WILD VISION WILDERNESS AS PARADOX About the Gallery CULTIVATING WILDNESS Rethinking, Remaking FROM THE WILDERNESS TO THE WILD About the Gallery THE STORIED WILD About the Gallery MANAGED WILD: CLOUD AND SMOKE About the Gallery THE DE-FACTO WILD About the Gallery NEW WAYS OF SEEING About the Gallery NOTES FURTHER READING FURTHER VIEWING ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y